Firefox users have several options at hand to delete private browsing data. This includes running the browser in private browsing mode, configuring it to delete the data on shutdown or running the clear recent history module manually to delete some or all data this way. Veteran users may remember a time when the browser displayed [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

The Firefox web browser maintains three different caches: The memory cache, the disk cache and the offline cache. It is possible to access those caches from within the browser by loading the about:cache page in the browser’s address bar, or by opening the cache location on the computer’s hard drive. The latter method is obviously [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Ghacks regulars know how to clear the cache of their web browser. I get support emails occasionally from new readers who do not know how to do that, or who, when asked to clear the cache, do not know how to do it. Telling customers how to clear the cache was a regular thing back [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Tutorials Basic

Firefox users who want to manage their web browser’s cache have several options to do just that. They can enter about:cache in the browser’s address bar for a listing of the cache contents or open the cache directly in the system’s file browser to do the same. Both options are not the most comfortable ones. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

There are two ways to access the Firefox web browser cache. The cache can either be accessed from within the web browser by entering about:cache into the Firefox address bar or by opening the cache directory located in the Firefox user profile on the hard drive. The in-browser solution displays a bare-bone file browser with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera

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 [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox