While Fireox's cache is not glamourous, knowing how to view it's information can sometimes resolve strange problems with displaying web pages and keep you surfing the Net trouble free. The host page cache is used in what can be termed a writethrough. Instead of doing that, if you are troubleshooting a problem you can force Firefox to bypass the cache and reload the page by pressing CTRL and F5 or press the SHIFT key and click on the Reload button on the navigation toolbar. Writes are reported as completed only when the data has been committed to the storage device. To do that you need to close Firefox and re-open it. You can separately clear the Disk and Offline caches by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+DEL and selected which items you want to delete.īut you can't clear the Memory cache. You will notice for the Memory cache, that images and your profile images (chrome) are stored, while the Disk cache is a mixed of pages, images, etc. (To view the link actual web page or image click on the link on the second page.) To see more information about a link, click on it's URL. To view the contents of a cache, click on the List Cache Entries link. You will notice Firefox reports the size as KiB which stands for Kilobytes.

What's useful about this information is that it shows you how much is in use and the maximum allowed storage, in addition to listed the directory location of the each cache (except for the Memory cache device). You will then see the following page with information about the three cache locations and how much space is in use. All you need to do is type the following command in the location bar (address bar) and press enter.

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