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Old 07-04-2006, 01:39 PM   #1
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Disk Cleanup in Linux


Hi,

anyone to help me,,,

to keep the HDD clean ,,, deleting kookies, and other temp internet downloaded pages not required after surfing,,,


how can delete it manually if not deleted automatically,, and from where ?//


Thanx,,


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Old 07-04-2006, 01:50 PM   #2
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Did you try to mention browser in such posts? I guess that deleting with
rm -rf ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/{Cache,cookies.txt,bookmark*,*history*}
will kill most of mentioned. Try also Ctrl-Shift-Del to do it by means of firefox. Or do you want to wipe securely?

So, name browser, OS(Distribution) and goal.
 
Old 07-23-2006, 09:30 AM   #3
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Mozilla is Browser

OS is RHL 9.0

I tried to find the firefox mentioned in your link... but could not find any result,, whereas I always browse and download my softwares from net,, ,through mozilla...

where is this directory.... as you started the link

~/.mozilla/firefox/*/{Cache,cookies.txt,bookmark*,*history*}

Please guide,, I m new in this OS,,,


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Old 07-23-2006, 12:02 PM   #4
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Mozilla is Browser

OS is RHL 9.0

I tried to find the firefox mentioned in your link... but could not find any result,, whereas I always browse and download my softwares from net,, ,through mozilla...

where is this directory.... as you started the link

~/.mozilla/firefox/*/{Cache,cookies.txt,bookmark*,*history*}

Please guide,, I m new in this OS,,,


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~ is your home directory.
 
Old 07-23-2006, 01:08 PM   #5
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Well, run
find ~/.mozilla -name '*bookmark*'

What's the output?
 
Old 07-23-2006, 02:54 PM   #6
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If you have mozilla, you do not necessarily have firefox.

In your home directory, type ls -a to list all files--including hidden. Among the hidden files (the ones starting with "."), there will be one for mozilla. Look aroung in the various subfolders and you will find a profile folder--in here are all the settings, cookies, history, etc. that are associated with your personal use.

a profile folder always has a funny name---eg this is mine: e13z9yg4.default

If you have things in here that you care about---eg bookmarks--then make a backup before messing around.

Note also that you have menu commands in the browser GUI for clearing history, cookies, etc.
 
Old 07-23-2006, 03:22 PM   #7
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With the browser open -> Edit -> preferences -> privacy and you can set how long you want to retain history and clear cookies etc.
 
Old 07-23-2006, 03:31 PM   #8
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https://addons.mozilla.org/search.ph...page=10&left=0

there are some mozilla extensions here that make it a one clikc job to delete cookies, history etc quicker then having to go to the preferences and click delete each time. Some put a icon on mozilla that when cliked will clean the history etc right then.
 
  


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