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firefox creates thousands of empty folders

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lagenor
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i use Firefox portable version 13. from time to time, it creates thousands of empty in cache folder. what causes this ? and how can i solve it?

i use Firefox portable version 13. from time to time, it creates thousands of empty in cache folder. what causes this ? and how can i solve it?

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the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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http://portableapps.com/forums/support/firefox_portable

cor-el
cor-el
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Firefox portable shouldn't be using the disk cache and store data in it.
You can verify that via the about:cache page.

Are you sure that this is the Firefox disk cache and not the result of using specific plugins?