Erase Firefox Cache History
Cache files are an innovative system to speed up the loading of the web pages that a user visits frequently, more often than not an user visits a page several times, the animations, icons and some of the other content on the page remain static and would be downloaded each time an user visits a page, thus slowing up the whole process of downloading the page, cache files store these kinds of data on the local disk to avoid this redundancy of downloads.
Firefox uses a novel way to store the cache on a system, cache files are nothing but the content in the frequently accessed web sites, this mainly includes pictures, animations and flash movies, other download information, icons and other static information etc. These files are necessary for the browser as it speeds up the displaying of the web pages you frequently visit, it can be an privacy issue too when used on a public computer. Firefox can open these pages from your hard disk instead of downloading them every time from the website server. Firefox cache files can sometimes compromise your privacy because anyone who can have access to your PC can say where you have been on the web with the whole web footprint available to them. Below mentioned is the steps that have to be followed to delete the cache files from your hard drive.
How to erase catch in Firefox 3?
Step 1. Go to “Tools” menu in the top of the browser and open the Clear Private Data window in FireFox.
Step 2. Check the “Cache” check box.
Step 3. Click on the “Clear Private Data Now” button.
Step 4. You can restart the browser if you want to.
How to erase catch in Firefox 2?
Step 1. Go to “Tools” menu in the top of the browser.
Step 2. Select the “Options” menu item .
Step 3. Select the Privacy menu item.
Step 4. In Private area there click “Clear Now”.
Step 5. In “Clear Private Data” window put the check mark for “Cache” and click “Clear Private Data Now”.
Step 5. Click “OK”.
Step 6. You can restart the browser if you want to.