FF3 Cache Issue

Lethal` · 27 Sep 2008 at 17:17

I got a problem with FireFox which happened suddenly when I had Firefox 2 installed before. The cache is never accessed, and all graphics on a page are reloaded when I re-visit, it never used to do this and I didn't change anything.

Here are my settings from about:config:

I have tried clearing private data, and numerous other things which I can't remember at the moment.

Thanks for any help

Craig321 · 27 Sep 2008 at 17:20

Try these settings:

browser.cache.disk.capacity can definitely be kept as you have it.

Lethal` · 27 Sep 2008 at 17:33

Thanks for the fast reply. But I don't think it has worked, images are still reloading when I visit previous pages. (I see the alt text before the image every time)

Also I use browser.startup.homepage 3 and before this issue occured all the open tabs pages wouldn't reload when I opened Firefox, however they do because of this issue. And I have previously tried uninstalling Firefox, cleaning with ccleaner and reinstalling however I got the same problem.

Craig321 · 27 Sep 2008 at 17:38

When you reinstalled did you delete the files from %appdata%\Mozilla? (put %appdata%\Mozilla into run to look at them).

If you don't delete that folder when reinstalling then nothing will change, the files under C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox never change.

Lethal` · 27 Sep 2008 at 17:45

Yes I deleted all of that after backing up bookmarks etc. I also tried after reinstalling and getting the same issue some instructions on a mozilla site which said how to create a new profile, but that didn't help either.

zzzJonny · 27 Sep 2008 at 18:18

Try resetting all of those in bold in the screenshot you posted. (Right click, reset)

Lethal` · 29 Sep 2008 at 21:04

Didn't work unfortunately. Any other suggestions?

zzzJonny · 29 Sep 2008 at 22:56

Hmm, try to uninstall it using Revouninstaller on the fullest uninstall mode and see if it cleans it up.

Lethal` · 30 Sep 2008 at 17:36

Ok I have reinstalled using that, so I will see how it goes from here (hard to tell straight away). But I don't like the way it remembered the settings for browser.cache.* from above exactly. E.g. 50000

tolien · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:07

If you tried a new profile and it was the same, it's probably not an issue with Firefox itself.

The settings for browser.cache etc will be the same because they're stored in your profile. That's why reinstalling Firefox is virtually pointless.

Lethal` · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:14

When I reinstalled, I didn't re-import my profile. And I deleted it first.

tolien · 30 Sep 2008 at 19:56

You won't have to reimport it. Firefox will automatically pick it up if it's there.

You deleted %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox?