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BleachBit 6.0 Introduces New Cookie Manager, Improves Browser Cleaning
Highlights of BleachBit 6.0 include a new cookie manager that lets you choose which cookies to keep when cleaning Chromium- and Firefox-based web browsers, support for Vivaldi and Zen web browsers, and a new expert mode option that offers guardrails for less experienced users by restricting advanced operations.
Starting with this release, BleachBit now cleans storage, permissions, bounce tracking protection, site security state, alternate services, favicons, and session backups on Firefox and Firefox-based browsers like LibreWolf and Waterfox, while also improving cache handling for Flatpak and Snap installations of these browsers.
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BleachBit 6.0.0 Released with Cookie Manager & Expert Mode | UbuntuHandbook
BleachBit, the free open-source system cleaner application, released new 6.0.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this CCleaner alternative app for Linux and Windows is the biggest version in years.
The 6.0.0 version introduced new Cookie Manager feature, which can be launched either from browsers’ cookies context menu or the preferences in hamburger menu.
With it, you can choose to always keep the cookies for your selected websites, for example keep your Google, Github, Reddit etc accounts signed in, while other site data (e.g., caching images/files for loading faster) allowing to be deleted.
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Open-source privacy tool BleachBit 6.0.0 upgrades code signing across Windows and Linux - Help Net Security
System cleaning utilities have grown more relevant as web browsers stockpile larger volumes of cached data, tracking artifacts, and site storage on local disks. The open-source utility BleachBit moved into a new major version on with a 6.0.0 release that targets that buildup. The update contains more than 100 changes covering browser cleaners, the command-line interface, secure deletion, and platform-specific fixes for Windows and Linux.