Re: Firefox Cache Settings
From: Hairy One Kenobi (abuse_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 10/24/05
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:11:56 GMT
"Management" <charlienospam@peartreegreen.org> wrote in message
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> 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.
<snip>
> * 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 :)
Thanks, chaps - glad to see that it *can* be done, if not in quite as
obviously as I would have liked!
Point noted about putting the word "change" in the next Google rummage <hits
head against desk. Repeats..>
As noted, I presume that this sets a user-specific file setting.. setting
this for a bunch or users could obviously be fairly tiresome (unless you
either get a warm and fuzzy feeling developing potential "killer" scripts,
or simply stomp over previous settings - like a few of the less enlightened
sysadmins wot I have known ;o)
One other thing I did notice is that filenames aren't reused in the cache,
or are version-specific - the "basic" cache actually took 60MB (configured
to a maximum of 50MB), and a rummage through the online backup freed 350MB.
And, no, that's not a typo.
Cheers again,
H1K
P.S. Anyone have a list of these config settings, or is it going to take a
trawl through the header files? Thought that I might write it up (given that
noone seems to have bothered putting it in the Help!)
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