On 1/8/13 6:24 PM, goodwin wrote: > On 01/08/2013 06:05 AM, Ant wrote: >> On 1/1/2013 11:34 AM PT, Ant typed: >> >>> Does the web browsers keep the most used cached files on the disks? Do >>> the least used one get thrown one when more room is needed? >> >> Also, how does the automatic disk cache sizes get calculated and set? >> For an example with my SeaMonkey v2.14.1 web browser, it is 350 MB. >> Iceweasel/Debian's Firefox v17.0.1 web browser is about 800 MB. > > type "about:config" (w/o quote marks) in address bar. > > type "cache" in upper search (called filtering) bar. > > right click any entry to modify... >
I did that. There were 37 preferences with "cache" in the names of the variables. Which ones control the size of the cache on disc? I found browser.cache.disk.capacity and browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value, each set to 358400. What is the difference between those two? Then there are browser.cache.offline.capacity and media.cache_size, each set to 512000. What is the difference between those two? At at <http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries>, only seven preference variables beginning with "browser.cache." are defined; browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value and browser.cache.offline.capacity are not among those seven. There are no entries at all for media. variables. That Mozillazine pages says the value for browser.cache.disk.capacity represents kilobytes (358400 = ~.36 GB). All this further illustrates why bug #178685 should be implemented. Frequent references to about:config in these support newsgroups (including in this thread) proves that the implementation should be useable by end-users. See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178685>. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Are taxes too high in the U.S.? Check the bar graph at <http://www.rossde.com/taxes/trickling.html> to see. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
