BleachBit 0.8.7 released and installation instructions included
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.
What is new in bleachbit 0.8.7
BleachBit 0.8.7 improves command line support, imports winapp2.ini-style files allowing immediately for 440 additional cleaners on Windows, adds an Estonian translation, and more.
* Be a fan of BleachBit on the new Facebook page.
* Add command line option --preset which selects all the cleaners previously selected in the GUI.
* When showing a warning, show which option generated the warning.
* Specific to Linux
o Support Thunderbird on openSUSE 11.3 thanks to Manfred Schwarb (LP#668231)
o Fix wrong button label when adding folders for overwrite disk space and for whitelist (pointed out by jtarin)
o When cleaning localizations, show warning to point user to configuration
o Packagers: BleachBit will try to use the built-in json module on Python 2.6+ instead of simplejson, which is still required on Python 2.5.
* Specific to Windows
o Import winapp2.ini files: the CCleaner community maintains winapp2.ini files with about 440 cleaner definitions. Just download a winapp2.in file and place it in one of the BleachBit cleaner directories: read Documentation: Winapp2.ini for more details.
o Internet Explorer: delete autocomplete passwords
o Support registry keys in the HKCR (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT) hive
Install bleachbit 0.8.7 in ubuntu
download deb packages from here and install them by double clicking on it.
