SillyDog701

[cuintheicu]

HI
I am relatively new to mozilla firefox and have already got hooked on to it.
The problem is as follows:
Earlier when I used internet explorer and I would visit any site all the pics/music files which i viewed or heard were put in the cache. After I was through I used to search my cache for important pics and music. But in firefox though the cache is there... It doesnt make any sense to me. The files dont seem to open anyhow.
I heard about giving the command about:cache in firefox. This certainly showed me the memory cache. But i dont want the memory cache like that. I would like to have it on my hard drive where I can view thumbnails and stuff. That makes it easier to sort the required files.
Can anyone help me with this ?
Thanks
Tarun

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[Al]

I don't get what are you saying.

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[J-M]

After I was through I used to search my cache for important pics and music. But in firefox though the cache is there... It doesnt make any sense to me. The files dont seem to open anyhow.

There is some basic things described in a quite new thread
http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8025

Mozilla (and other Gecko-based browsers) don't use original file name and file suffix when they save files to memory and disk cache. This is a more secure practice too.

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[profman]

I speculate that turning the memory cache off might force all future loads into the disk cache where you could inspect it. The PrefBar extension seems to have check boxes that turn these functions on and off.

There are two memory caches in the Mozilla suite, version 1.7.5 (and Firefox). One is the memory cache, and the other is the hard drive cache. I have no idea what the effect would be if you turned off the memory cache.

Anyone should feel free to jump in here if this speculation is incorrect.

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[Amrad]

Hello Profman,

I speculate that turning the memory cache off might force all future loads into the disk cache where you could inspect it. The PrefBar extension seems to have check boxes that turn these functions on and off.

I'm using Mozilla 1.7.3 and in Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache there is only HDD cache! Has memory cache been added since the release of Mozilla 1.7.3?

Regards,

Dave

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[profman]

Hello Profman,

I speculate that turning the memory cache off might force all future loads into the disk cache where you could inspect it. The PrefBar extension seems to have check boxes that turn these functions on and off.

I'm using Mozilla 1.7.3 and in Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache there is only HDD cache! Has memory cache been added since the release of Mozilla 1.7.3?

Regards,

Dave

Memory cache has been around for quite a while, but there is generally no options in the GUI interface for you to control it. The memory cache seems to be turned on by default. The line that I see when I check the "about:config" screen (and type in "cache" as the filter) is "browser.cache.memory.enable" which has the value of "true." Changing this line to "false"will disable the memory cache.

You may also add the line

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user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 16384);

and change the size of the memory cache.
[Some info in the post was found on the Mozilla newsgroups.]

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[Amrad]

Hello Profman,

Thanks for your reply.

Hello Profman,

I speculate that turning the memory cache off might force all future loads into the disk cache where you could inspect it.

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I'm using Mozilla 1.7.3 and in Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache there is only HDD cache! Has memory cache been added since the release of Mozilla 1.7.3?

Regards,

Dave

Memory cache has been around for quite a while, but there is generally no options in the GUI interface for you to control it. The memory cache seems to be turned on by default. The line that I see when I check the "about:config" screen (and type in "cache" as the filter) is "browser.cache.memory.enable" which has the value of "true."

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Ahh, that explains it. Yes, when I checked "about:config" there it was! I wasn't aware of there being a memory cache, I don't recall hearing about it before!

Thanks for the explanation.

Regards,

Dave.

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[akbash]

Piecing together bits I know and pieces I think I know: the memory cache can't be completely disabled. Some data (anything that came over a secure connection, for example) cannot be cached on disk. "Disabling" the memory cache severely restricts its size, but doesn't completely get rid of it. And I think Mozilla isn't particularly concerned with saving items expelled from the memory cache to disk.

In the end I think some items just never make it to the disk cache and you can't prevent that, but you can reduce their number by disabling the memory cache. I tend to think that would reduce performance. If you're anxious to keep a local copy of everything you browse, look into the Slogger extension. I can't speak for it personally but I've heard good things about it.

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