BleachBit 0.9.0 beta - (Clean junk to free disk space and to maintain privacy)

[FunkY]

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 90 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

Features
BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

• Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
• Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
• Free of charge
• Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
• Free of adware, spyware, and malware
• Translated to 49 languages
• Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
• Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
• Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
• Portable app for Windows: run without installation
• Command line interface for scripting and automation
• CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
• Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 500+ additional cleaners
• Frequent software updates with new features

Use BleachBit to:

• Free disk space
• Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
• Maintain privacy
• Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example)
• Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Add 500+ cleaners by using winapp2.ini (Windows only).

BleachBit 0.9.0beta
Submitted by andrew on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 23:18

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 0.9.0 beta which includes enhancements. bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

• Clean Thunderbird
• In Google Chrome and Chromium, disable the setting for network prediction, close the browser, clean with BleachBit, restart the browser, and verify the setting has not changed.
• Clean cache for Chromium and Google Chrome.
• Edit bleachbit.ini and change "true" or "false" to some garbage value. Verify BleachBit starts (LP#799130)

Linux

• Under GNOME 3 (Fedora 15, Arch Linux, etc), clean System - Recent Documents. Verify the Recent Documents list is empty for GNOME and gedit.
• Under GNOME 3, set a custom wallaper, and then clean System - Cache. Then logout of GNOME, and get back in. Verify the wallpaper is OK.
• CentOS 6

Windows

• Start many system processes (50?) that can be seen in Task Manager, and clean any part of Firefox. Verify BleachBit does not freeze.
• Verify BleachBit starts in all combinations of these situations (especially UAC disabled with standard user):
• Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Administrator or standard user
• UAC enabled or disabled
• Answer YES or NO to the UAC
• Portable mode or installed
• BleachBit.exe on a network drive, removable drive (USB), or hard drive (C:\)

Translations

• Bengali
• Australian English
• Bosnian

To look for regressions follow the standard tests on the "Testing" page.
Bugs

Remember: beta releases are more likely to contain bugs and are recommended only for testing. Use with caution.

Report any bugs to the bug tracker or forum.

Homepage and download
http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

[saturn]

Thanks for this FunkY

[jj1two3]

Thanks for the update and information FunkY. I use BleachBit, its a good cleaning tool.

[hellnoire]

Anyone still using this on Linux?

[INDRANIL]

My favorite one . I'll wait for the final build before I update. Cheers .

[twistedwire]

BleachBit 090 final is released

[FunkY]

BleachBit 090 final is released

True. Thanks for the news twistedwire