Ed Cryer wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:

I clear Firefox weekly; Options/ Privacy & Security/ clear data cache,
clear history.

Why keep the local data at all? Configure Firefox to purge its local
data on its exit.

I use IE once in a blue moon, but clear it weekly for tidiness.

Enable its option under Advanced - Security to flush its local data on
exit. It mostly works but I have found some items lingering.

Of course, if a web browser crashes, it cannot execute its exit routines
hence the usefulness of 3rd party cleanup tools.

I've been clearing through Control Panel, and always get the Comodo
prompt. This is the *only* Comodo prompt I ever get.
From now on I shall clear through IE itself.

Use CCleaner. You can run it from a command line (ccleaner.exe /auto).
Then create a shortcut using that command, like in a toolbar in the
Windows taskbar or in the Start menu under a folder, say, for
Maintenance. Alternatively, you could use the command line for a
scheduled event in Task Scheduler. I do both: sometimes I want an
immediate flush and I also want a scheduled flush.

There's also BleachBit. I haven't use it. I remember trialing it but
it was missing some features of CCleaner, like an option to omit files
less than 24 hours old in the Recycle Bin or %temp% folder. I don't
know if BleachBit lends itself to running from the command line (to run
via shortcut to run a profile of objects to clean or can be scheduled).

Let the software and computer do the work. That's what it's for. If I
had to rotate the drum in the laundry washer, I wouldn't need the washer
and could use an old tub and washboard to manually clean my clothes.


Have you ever been hit by "Now then, that website I was at earlier today
- where was it? Was it in www.xxx or wwww.yyy or what?"
Well, I have; and I've found that a look through Firefox's history often
gets me back there.
And I'm not short of disc space.

I've never heard of Bleachbit, but CCleaner I use often enough. I've
listened to many discussions about its reliability, and it's never let
me down personally.

So elect not to purge Firefox's history on exit. You haven't even
bothered to look at the cleanup settings, have you? Else you would've
already known you could elect what types of data to purge.

So what happens when /YOU/ purge Firefox's local data for that weekly
cleanup routine? Well, the same scenario hits. Hmm, what was that
place I visited just before I chose to manually delete the history? You
said you do the manual cleanup once per week. Why not let a scheduled
task do the same?

You display a wide interest and capable knowledge of all things
Windows. Does the nagging question I have not bug you at all? It does
with me, and I'll expend time and energy trying to solve it. Wasted
time, you might say. Maybe, but bug me it does.

Are you back on the Comodo prompt about inetcpl.cpl? Seems that got
narrowed down; however, this newsgroup isn't a Comodo user community and
there might be something you need to change in Comodo's configuration as
to why it alerts on what should be a whitelisted/trusted process. The
problem isn't with using inetcpl.cpl. The problem is with Comodo
Firewall, Comodo Internet Security, or whatever is the Comodo (a company
name) product you are using. The Comodo forums might be more fruitful
on how to configure that security program.