CJ could publish a 3rd party plugin API

[Kyle Hotchkiss]

Binary package hint: computer-janitor

*Wishlist

I see Computer Janitor as what CCleaner does for Windows, Something to clean up the accumulated crap, and occasionally that crap is in the form of leftover Firefox and Chrome files, which would be neat to clean up because TADA new features are cool =)

So removing the ~/.mozilla/firefox/some_id/Cache folder could do the trick perhaps? and the ~./cache/google_chrome has the cache files too (But they're in another format so maybe we don't wanna touch those...)

Of course, history, cookies, download history, and form information could also be cleaned up.

hope I inspired!

[talsemgeest (talsemgeest)]

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Also, as Firefox and chrome/chromium all have the option to clean their own temporary files, this ability in computer-janitor would be a duplication of functionality.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

One thing that might be interesting though, would be to extend the plugin architecture of computer janitor to allow easy third party plugins. Then community members could contribute cleanups for Firefox and Chrome. I agree however that this is outside the scope of CJ core.