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Hi,

In the past I could adjust the buffer size of a website and how much data is being stored. Why is this removed? The most common size was 350 mb.

Now I have to spent time to empty the buffer by hand. I would like to bring it down to 0 mb so I dont have to empty the buffer by hand thru the settings.

Thank you for answering my question.

Hi, In the past I could adjust the buffer size of a website and how much data is being stored. Why is this removed? The most common size was 350 mb. Now I have to spent time to empty the buffer by hand. I would like to bring it down to 0 mb so I dont have to empty the buffer by hand thru the settings. Thank you for answering my question.

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Firefox should automatically remove files stored in the disk cache if it get filled by too many files. You can check the about:cache page for more detail about the disk cache and memory cache.


This now needs to be done via browser.cache.disk prefs on the about:config page.

  • browser.cache.disk.capacity
  • browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled

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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Firefox should automatically remove files stored in the disk cache if it get filled by too many files. You can check the about:cache page for more detail about the disk cache and memory cache.


This now needs to be done via browser.cache.disk prefs on the about:config page.

  • browser.cache.disk.capacity
  • browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled

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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@Cor-el: Thank you for your quick reaction and solution for this.

A little feedback to Mozilla:

Why does this function exist? To make it more comfortable, i am sure but did you even have permission to store this data?