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[Enhancement]: Privacy — Browser Privacy Cleaner (per-browser cache/cookies/history) #336
Description
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on May 22, 2026 Shipped in v1.31.0 as a working Browser Cleaner tab (Privacy & Security).
What it does
- Auto-detects installed browsers: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Firefox.
- Per-category with sizes shown before cleaning: Cache, History, Cookies, Sessions.
- Cookies and sessions are flagged "signs you out" and left unticked by default — cleaning them is always an explicit choice, so you keep your logins. Cache and history are pre-selected.
- Confirmation with an impact summary (total size + a note when sensitive items are included) before anything is deleted.
- Per-user (no admin). Locked files (browser open) are skipped rather than forced, and symlinks/junctions are never followed.
How it's built
BrowserCleanerServicetakes injectable LOCALAPPDATA/APPDATA roots, so the scan + clean logic is unit-tested against a temp profile tree (6 tests) without touching real browser data. Scan is read-only; Clean deletes only discovered files with the same reparse-point-safe enumeration as Deep Cleanup.
Note on the cookie keep-list: rather than a partial per-site keep-list (which is fragile across browser DB formats), this ships the safer default — cookies are simply never cleaned unless you explicitly tick them. A per-site keep-list can be a future enhancement.
Install:
winget upgrade laurentiu021.SysManageror the portable.exefrom the v1.31.0 release.
Problem
Browsers accumulate large amounts of cached data, cookies, and history. Users want to clean specific browsers without losing important login cookies.
Proposed solution
Affected tab
Privacy & Security