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updated to FF20.0 Windows 8 64bit up to date Now I have 4mb ea Caches in C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_1_

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updated to FF20.0 Windows 8 64bit up to date Now I have 4mb ea Caches in C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_1_

C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_2_

C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_3_

C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_MAP_9

I use CCleaner to remove them but when I start Firefox they reappear

Does anyone know what these are? and what they are for?

Thanks

updated to FF20.0 Windows 8 64bit up to date Now I have 4mb ea Caches in C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_1_ C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_2_ C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_3_ C:|users\lee\AppData\Local\mozilla\firefox\profiles\tfw6yc7z.default\CACHE_MAP_9 I use CCleaner to remove them but when I start Firefox they reappear Does anyone know what these are? and what they are for? Thanks

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Thanks jscher2k

I am on FF auto update so previous version 19.?

I just wanted to make sure it was not malicious activity

Thanks for the response

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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That looks normal to me. What version did you have before? The layout of the Firefox cache folder changed some time ago so that more files could be accommodated (i.e., to keep performance acceptable because Windows slows down with huge numbers of files in a single directory).

Edit: Screen shot of file sizes for comparison:

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Thanks jscher2k

I am on FF auto update so previous version 19.?

I just wanted to make sure it was not malicious activity

Thanks for the response