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David Stone
Mar 25, 2013, 10:31:25 AM3/25/13
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In article <super70s-E64DA8...@free.teranews.com>,
super70s <supe...@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what would cause Firefox to clear its cache
> prematurely, IOW, before it has used the allotted amount I give it in
> the preferences? And I'm giving it plenty of room.
>
> I realize it will start over if the program crashes, but it seems like
> it's doing this even when I quit the program properly.
>
> I thought there might be some setting in the about:config I could tweak
> to help this.
>
> I'm running Tiger and I'm talking about Firefox 3.6.28, the latest
> version that will run on this system.
Is it actually clearing the entire cache, or simply clearing your
history? If the latter, there's a separate option for that in the
privacy settings. Disclaimer: I really don't remember if that option
was there in FF 3.x, although I can check when I get home...
super70s <supe...@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what would cause Firefox to clear its cache
> prematurely, IOW, before it has used the allotted amount I give it in
> the preferences? And I'm giving it plenty of room.
>
> I realize it will start over if the program crashes, but it seems like
> it's doing this even when I quit the program properly.
>
> I thought there might be some setting in the about:config I could tweak
> to help this.
>
> I'm running Tiger and I'm talking about Firefox 3.6.28, the latest
> version that will run on this system.
Is it actually clearing the entire cache, or simply clearing your
history? If the latter, there's a separate option for that in the
privacy settings. Disclaimer: I really don't remember if that option
was there in FF 3.x, although I can check when I get home...
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Ant
Mar 26, 2013, 3:52:00 PM3/26/13
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You should ask this in news.mozilla.org usenet server's
mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup. :)
In comp.sys.mac.apps super70s <supe...@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what would cause Firefox to clear its cache
> prematurely, IOW, before it has used the allotted amount I give it in
> the preferences? And I'm giving it plenty of room.
> I realize it will start over if the program crashes, but it seems like
> it's doing this even when I quit the program properly.
> I thought there might be some setting in the about:config I could tweak
> to help this.
> I'm running Tiger and I'm talking about Firefox 3.6.28, the latest
> version that will run on this system.
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In comp.sys.mac.apps super70s <supe...@super70s.invalid> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what would cause Firefox to clear its cache
> prematurely, IOW, before it has used the allotted amount I give it in
> the preferences? And I'm giving it plenty of room.
> I realize it will start over if the program crashes, but it seems like
> it's doing this even when I quit the program properly.
> I thought there might be some setting in the about:config I could tweak
> to help this.
> I'm running Tiger and I'm talking about Firefox 3.6.28, the latest
> version that will run on this system.
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