I use two cleaners on my system, Redleg's Wash N' Go and CCleaner. I am new to K-Meleon but I don't think that those cleaners pick up on K-Meleon. Does anyone know if I am wrong, and if I am right, how I could securely delete all traces and history of my K-Meleon searches.

I am a firefox user but I want to switch to something lighter and faster but I also want to be able to securely delete everything.

Thanks for your help

Greetings Domino. Try this. Go to Tools to Privacy to Settings. Check all those you
are interested in clearing. Now in Crap Cleaner go to Options then Custom. According
to the settings on mine you would add something like
C:\Documents and Settings\Domino\Application Data\K-Meleon
Hope this helps. I am not familiar with Redlegs Wash N Go. Can you post a link to it?
I would like to check it out. Is it also freeware? :-)

Thanks a lot I will try that.

Redleg's Wass N' Go is awesome I use them together all the time. It is freeware. You can find it here on CNETS site

http://www.download.com/Wash-N-Go/3000-2144_4-10617012.html?tag=lst-0-3

Some people don't seem to like it according to the reviews but I haven't had a proble with it.

Let me know if you try it and whether or not you like it. It might not be all that great for all I know.

I guess you miht get interested in trying this one also:

PrivacyWatcher

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ACM
I guess you miht get interested in trying this one also:

PrivacyWatcher

Is this freeware or only a trial?

Domino,

It's freeware, although it used to be shareware. Not anymore, buddy.

Here it is another nice alternative:

Free Window Sweeper

Domino, what are we readers to think? you write...
Redleg's Wass N' Go is awesome
It might not be all that great for all I know.

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Derman
Domino, what are we readers to think? you write...
Redleg's Wass N' Go is awesome
It might not be all that great for all I know.

Good point, (lol at myself) I guess I should have been more clear.

What I should have said is that I think Redleg's Wash N' Go is an awesome tool for me personally, but it might not be a good tool for you or anyone else.

Is that better Derman? ; P

Of the mentioned programs I have only CCleaner installed.


CCleaner can be set to clean/sanitize K-Meleon files via:

CCleaner > Options > Add File/Add Folder:

You can add files/folders for sanitizing with CCleaner from Your used Profile which You can find via:

K-Meleon > Edit > Configuration > Profile directory ( it is by default in % Apdata % next to Your Firefox/Mozilla Profile If You unselected Multiple user Profiles on install it is in K-Meleon directory/Profiles...)

Explanation of "private" K-Meleon files inside Your profle:
XX000915.s = Your passwords (random number, extension *.s ),
bookmarks.html = bookmarks (Your Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox type bookmarks),
bookmarks_backup.html = bookmarks backup file,
cookies.txt = cookies ( markers written by visited pages ),
feeds.xml = Your RSS feeds addresses,
history.dat = surfing history,
IconCache.dat = e. g. site icons (favicon) of the pages You visited,
opera.adr = Opera hotlist file (Opera type bookmarks file) .

CCleaneer cannot clean K-Meleon's MRU list! That is in Prefs.js only K-Meleon privacy plugin can handle that (or an editor when K-Meleon is shut down).

Explanation of folders:

Cache = hdd cache of temporary files ( that is next to Your profile and it can be visited by a nosy person via about:cache )

And If You want You could delete the whole "./profiles/..." folder - k-meleon will create a new one in a subdirectory of Profiles with the name "default" on its next start. You could built on this and e.g. use this default profile for private surfing and sure deleting by overwriting and another with a specific name for normal use.

As said before for normal purposes it is much easier to have K-Meleon privacy pluging to do routine cleanup. It does not overwrite the files however - so they could be recovered by a nosy person.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/12/2007 04:36AM by guenter.