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clearing the cache

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wulliehughes5
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I have set firefox to clear the cache when I close it. However, when I reopen the browser I find there is still a varying quantity of data still stored. I manually ask it to clear the data which it does except for 170kb of data which is untouched! No matter how many times I do this there is still 170kb of data cached. What is this data and how do I clear everything?

I have set firefox to clear the cache when I close it. However, when I reopen the browser I find there is still a varying quantity of data still stored. I manually ask it to clear the data which it does except for 170kb of data which is untouched! No matter how many times I do this there is still 170kb of data cached. What is this data and how do I clear everything?

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FredMcD
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Let's take a look. Type about:cache<enter> in the address box.