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Internet / Re: Firefox and disck cache - not using it, but why?
« Last post by Dariusz Piatkowski on March 01, 2026, 04:22:24 am »Dave!
I did quite a bit of surfing for the answer, but seeing how old our FF is very few topics were relevant. Having said that, I went through the regular suspects, such as: combination of private session setups and the previous bugs that would force the disk cache to be disabled...alas, those were actually FF releases prior to ours.
As it happens I try to do an occasional FF profile backup, but seeing as I haven't been really consistent with this (given that I do a DAILY rsync copy) the last backups I had were from Feb-2024...but no-go there, meaning, nothing was to be found in the 'cache2' subdirectory. Keep in mind though that in order to minimize the backup size I typically would purge the cache first before I ran the backup...lol, great intent, but that approach messes with our troubleshooting today!
Anyways, I did play around with re-directing to my RAMDISK, no change there.
I am going to revert to the previous cache engine setting and see if that does have any impact.
I seem to have the same behaviour here. With SM as well. Wonder if one of updates broke something.
One thing I do is keep the cache on my ram disk so as not to wear my SSD. On Firefox need to add the string preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and point it to where you want.
I'll keep an eye on the cache
I did quite a bit of surfing for the answer, but seeing how old our FF is very few topics were relevant. Having said that, I went through the regular suspects, such as: combination of private session setups and the previous bugs that would force the disk cache to be disabled...alas, those were actually FF releases prior to ours.
As it happens I try to do an occasional FF profile backup, but seeing as I haven't been really consistent with this (given that I do a DAILY rsync copy) the last backups I had were from Feb-2024...but no-go there, meaning, nothing was to be found in the 'cache2' subdirectory. Keep in mind though that in order to minimize the backup size I typically would purge the cache first before I ran the backup...lol, great intent, but that approach messes with our troubleshooting today!
Anyways, I did play around with re-directing to my RAMDISK, no change there.
I am going to revert to the previous cache engine setting and see if that does have any impact.
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