One of the best options therefor is to use third party tools like CCleaner to clean data left by the web browser on the computer system.

The Firefox and Google Chrome add-on Click&Clean offers an alternative to third party tools by providing those features directly in the supported web browser.

The Google Chrome extension offers deeper configuration options than the Firefox add-on, the end result on the other hand can be the same (depending on the configuration).

Firefox Click&Clean Add-on

The options are divided into three groups. Clear private data will delete the web browsing data either directly when triggered manually or on browser exit. An external application can be integrated into the add-on so that it will be run as well. The advanced options finally allow the user to delete Flash Cookies from the system.

Google Chrome Click&Clean Extensions

The Chrome extension looks completely different and offers customization that the Firefox add-on does not offer.

A click on the items in the left sidebar opens in depth configuration options that include all clear browsing data options of the browser plus more. It is for instance possible to remove Flash cookies, Silverlight cookies, the Java cache, Google Gears data, extension local storage, cookies and SQL databases. There are even options to delete the recycle bin and temporary files of the operating system.

It is furthermore possible to configure when and how data is cleared with options to delete data manually or automatically. The option to launch an external application with arguments is available as well in Chrome.

That still is not everything that the Google Chrome extension has to offer. A click on the extension’s icon in the Chrome toolbar opens a menu with quick access to clearing the browsing data and new features like accessing the browser’s video history, memory usage and third party options like launching the system’s defragmenter or disk cleanup.

The Chrome extensions offers more than the Firefox add-on does. Both add-ons are available from the developer website and the official extension galleries on Mozilla.com and Google.com

CCleaner is also the requirement obviously for anyone who wants to use Click&Clean since it won’t do anything if CCleaner is not installed on the computer system. Besides placing a link in the Quick Launch Bar Click&Clean adds buttons to the web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox which can also be used to quickly clean the system using CCleaner.

The advantage of using Click&Clean is minimal and probably only useful for optimizers and users who run CCleaner several times during a session and do not want to click more than once. Everyone else is better off using CCleaner independently.