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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Web Browser: Firefox Cache Search

Cache Search is an experimental add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows the user to search the contents of the Firefox cache from within the web browser’s interface. The Firefox add-on can only be installed after logging into the Mozilla website as this is required to download and install experimental Firefox extensions.
The add-on will [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 20th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

Moving The Firefox Disk Cache To Another Drive

The Firefox disk cache is usually located on the same drive that Firefox got installed. In Windows it is located in the Documents and Settings folder. It usually is a good idea to have temporary directories located on a fast hard drive. In this case the hard drive that Firefox was running on was a [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox, ie, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 21st, 2008
  • Comments: 8

Run CCleaner With One Mouse Click

Click&Clean is a software program for users who like to optimize their workflow to the maximum. The software adds a link in the Windows Quick Launch bar that executes CCleaner with one click. CCleaner will automatically clean the system according to the settings that the user defined in the main application.
CCleaner is also the requirement [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 2nd, 2008
  • Comments: 6

Automatically clear RAM in Firefox

I reviewed the RAMBack add-on for Firefox 3 yesterday which provided a function to clear RAM in Firefox 3 to avoid an steady increase of memory usage of Firefox during a session. The only thing that was not optimal was that the user had to press a button to clear the RAM. An automatic solution [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 6th, 2006
  • Comments: None

Firefox Cache Viewer

The cache viewer extension for firefox might be a nice add-on for some users out there. One way to look at the cache is to enter about:cache in your address bar and hit enter. This display is unfortunately not very practicable and the information displayed are scarce. The cache on the hard drive is even worse, all files are obfuscated and you can only guess what this file is about by looking at the file size and type.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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