CCleaner and PaleMoon browser

Discussion in 'Software' started by dlb, Oct 24, 2010.

  1. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    I recently dumped Firefox in favor of PaleMoon (see my thread at this link) which basically is Firefox, but it's optimized for Windows, and therefore is faster than Firefox (IMO). My question is this: how do I get CCleaner to 'recognize' the PaleMoon browser like it does with Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer? I already have PaleMoon configured to automatically remove a lot of stuff when I close the browser, but there's always something left over, and that's what CCleaner is for (among other things). How do I get CCleaner to clean this stuff like it does for Firefox?

    THANKS!
     
  2. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    dlb, as you already noticed post # 69 in this link http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1548561&posted=1#post1548561 CCleaner picks up PM's stuff to be cleaned out. Just being curious I right clicked Firefox's stuff in CCleaner and that gave me a positive answer. GREAT isn't it?

    EDIT: I answered the above information so that other readers would know about it as well.
     
    Last edited: Oct 24, 2010
  3. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    Tried PaleMoon on my Vista machine and removed it after only a brief period.
    Was actually slower than IE, if that is possible.
    My Opera, on the same machine, smokes both of them.
    May just be that my machine doesn't like it, but I go with the faster one I can.
     
  4. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Hmmm.... after using PaleMoon for a bit, I truly think that CCleaner does NOT pick it up as Firefox since Firefox has its own folders and locations for temp files and caches that are totally different from PaleMoon. When I run CCleaner after an hour or two of PM surfing, it does NOT show anything being cleaned from Firefox (or PaleMoon)... this tells me that CCleaner is not cleaning PM.
     
  5. pwillener

    pwillener MajorGeek

    What CCleaner version are you using?
     
  6. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    An old one :-o Version 2.33.1184 with Win7 X64 Home Premium . . . I was going to upgrade to the newest "slim" version, but MG doesn't host the "slim" version anymore, and I've been too lazy to go to the Piriform web site and grab the latest "slim" build.... I'll do that now and see if makes a difference....
     
  7. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    CCleaner Slim is available as of today here on MG: http://majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_Slim_d4191.html :)
     
  8. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    OK - I just updated to v3.00.1303, and it did pick up some Firefox stuff to remove, but I can't remember if I've used FF since the last time I ran CCleaner. I've been running PaleMoon almost exclusively since it came to MajorGeeks (at least since I noticed that it came to MG ;) ), with occasional Maxthon usage, but I honestly don't remember if I've used Firefox in the past 3-4 days since my last CCleaner run.....
     

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