Re: Firefox Cache Settings

From: Management (charlienospam_at_peartreegreen.org)
Date: 10/24/05


Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:26:32 +0100

Hairy One Kenobi wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> Well, it seems that Firefox lumps its cache in the Application Settings
> area. And there isn't an obvious way to change it through the GUI.
>
> So.. excluding tweaking backups for this one application (everything else in
> that branch is actually useful), how does one set the cache directory?
> Googling gets me how to change the maximum cache size (shock, horror - oh so
> difficult ;o), but not how to reset the directory itself. And, as part of
> the tidy-up, I dumped the source code...
<SNIP>

Would this help:

<QUOTE>
* Open Firefox
     * In the location bar, type about:config and hit enter
     * Right-click in the white-space, and choose New->String. Enter
the name browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and click ok.</liL
     * In the next box, enter the full patch to the directory you
want to store your cache in. Something like C:Documents and
SettingsusernameLocal SettingsApplication DataMozillaFirefoxCache
     * Close Firefox.
     * Delete your old cache directories in C:Documents and
SettingsusernameApplication
DataMozillaFirefoxProfilessomething.username I actually had three
directories in here with cache in the name. I deleted all three.
     * Restart Firefox. It will create the directory specified
above, if it doesn't already exist.
<UNQUOTE>
http://decentdownloads.x-istence.com/Forum/index.php?showtopic=423

(Second hit for "change firefox cache directory" on Google :)

Charlie.

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