How large shoud your browser cache be?

Azuse05 · 12 May 2011 at 13:14

I use FF4, it unlike chrome have a default max cache size of 1GB which can obviously be edited in about:config. Chrome (iirc) has no limit and frequently hits 2-4GB however after returning to several google map pages I must have spent an hour caching previously I'm beginning to think 1GB is rather low these days.

I'm curious as to what other people think, or have, their browser caches at. Fast lines = a lot of images, street view/maps in particular, and drive space isn't really an issue these days. What size would you bump your cache up to if you weren't using chrome?

Deleted member 77746 · 12 May 2011 at 13:22

What size would you bump your cache up to if you weren't using chrome?

I'm not using Chrome and I don't care what my cache size is. Whatever the system wants it at default cache really.

Sin_Chase · 12 May 2011 at 13:23

0 MB Disk Cache
150MB RAM Cache (for use on that session only)

Have no need for any caching on a 20Mbit connection, I commit nothing to disk other than e-mail.

marc2003 · 12 May 2011 at 13:27

iDroid84 said:
I don't care what my cache size is.

Deleted member 77746 · 12 May 2011 at 13:27

Sin_Chase said:
I commit nothing to disk other than e-mail.

Don't you talk dirty to me !

Mr Krugga · 12 May 2011 at 13:32

I have it disabled since the browser is on my SSD and the cache is set to 256MB on my RAM.

lurkio · 12 May 2011 at 13:57

0

I use firefox portable and have a decent amount of RAM ( 6Gig )
So no cache needed

Sin_Chase · 12 May 2011 at 14:11

To be honest I don't see the point of a disk cache on a fast broadband connection really. It will be configured out of the box to a relatively modest size (so it's not like it's saving you GBs of transfer) and the disk latency times and potential issues associated with ongoing performance does not seem worth the tiny improvement in page loading.

My Opera runs much better, more consistently with 0 disk cache.