Firefox & CCleaner possible issues ?

I have FF set up like this



Scan before clean in CCleaner shows these



How can this be with my FF settings ? Or are these just default file sizes for those files ?

I tried to read both of them to see what's in there by converting from sql to .txt, but some of the code didn't display correctly after i opened them in notepad. So i can't be sure if there is any private etc data stored there !

Hopefully someone who knows will elaborate

 

Try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817
Could be just creating empty SQlite databases

 

Hi mvario thanks for the info and link Unfortunately my FF version isn't compatable,



Yeah i know it's not the latest version

But you made me go seek and find a nice free non install app SQLite Database Browser 2.0 This is what it shows in both files





They appear to be first run on startup type files, from what i can make out anyway ?

 

Yep that's right they are just "EMPTY" default files which firefox creates by default. Because you have history and the other stuff disabled no private information is added to them.

You can test this and see for your self by enabling keep my history and remember what I have downloaded, and you will probably see an increase in the file sizes or cc cleaner will detect more files to delete.

 

You need to click on 'Browse Data' tab.

 

@arran and @Sadeghi85

Thanks, confirmed AOK

 

In the "Clear history when Firefox closes" Settings, this is what I have. I assume this takes care of everything.

 

You might as well just run Firefox in private browsing mode all the time

about:config
browser.privatebrowsing.autostart true

 

I agree with mvario. Also, CloneRanger and Caspian are trying to achieve the same results two different ways; CR has Firefox set to not cache any of the info at all, where Caspian is using the "clear history" settings when closing the browser. The problem with that, from a privacy perspective, is that FF only deletes this information and doesn't erase it. Caspian, maybe you also use Sandboxie or similar?