How do I find out what is in my Firefox cache?

cousinlucky · 12-09-2005, 05:05 PM

The " cache " of my Firefox Browser always has something in it. If I clear it out and click OK and then if I open it right back up it has something in it.

How can I find out just what kind of information is in there?

Is it normal for this to be happening?

titanium_geek · 12-10-2005, 07:33 AM

basically a cache means that pages load faster- you visit a site, the cache keeps a copy of the page and when you visit it again, you are loading the page from your hdd, not from all the way over the internet.
This is perfectly normal behaviour.

You can turn it off if you want, you can just reduce the allowed cache size to zero. And of course you can use the "clear private data" option on the new firefox (1.5).

hope this helps.

titanium_geek

cousinlucky · 12-10-2005, 01:06 PM

Thank you Titanium,

If I clear the cache ( along with everything else ) and click OK the browser's history should be clear - right?

Well if I put the security window right back up the " cache " has something in it.

I am wondering if the Firefox malware program that was/is on the XP os within my computer has migrated to the Firefox browser in my Linux os.

I am wondering what information is remaining within the " cache " even after I clear it and why it is still there.

titanium_geek · 12-10-2005, 01:18 PM

right, if you clear everything, the history would be gone, along with cookies- it's for people who want to remove evidence of what they are looking at online.

re malware comment- please clarify (??)

maybe the firefox start page is in cache. You can also navegate to this place manually- it's a real physical folder, you just need to track it down, I think.

titanium-geek

cousinlucky · 12-10-2005, 07:24 PM

Mega man x has convinced me to try Opera for a Website browser and I like it better than Firefox already!!

titanium_geek · 12-11-2005, 07:07 PM

hey- opera is still opensource, so that's ok. OSS is about choice, anyway.

titanium_geek

Darin · 12-12-2005, 01:25 PM

Code:

about:cache

Code:

about:cache?device=memory

Type those into firefox's URL box.