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How do you resize the cache in Firefox? With the new update I no longer see that option.

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In earlier versions of Firefox, in the options area, there was a place to limit cache size to whatever you wanted. I no longer see this option and I would like to be able to do this. It makes Firefox run faster and limits the writes to my Hard Drive.

In earlier versions of Firefox, in the options area, there was a place to limit cache size to whatever you wanted. I no longer see this option and I would like to be able to do this. It makes Firefox run faster and limits the writes to my Hard Drive.

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There are still browser.cache.* prefs that you can modify directly on the about:config page.

  • browser.cache.disk.capacity

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Hi, default is still 350megs. You are correct you can not resize it that I know of.

I suggest you make your feelings known here about that and to make suggestions which will be reviewed by a team. 3 Bar Menu --> Help --> Submit Feedback

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

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There are still browser.cache.* prefs that you can modify directly on the about:config page.

  • browser.cache.disk.capacity

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.

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Thank you Cor-el and Pkshadow for your help in this matter. I was able to modify it in the about:config menu and it seems to be faster now that I've limited the cache size.

I would like to see this as a menu item in Firefox's Options in the future. It was much more convenient when it used to be there.

Once again thank you very much.