Clearing Your Cache: Firefox

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Reminder: Clearing your cache will slow the performance of your browser and increase your bandwidth consumption. This effect is temporary. The details are available in this post.

Clearing Your Cache: Windows: Firefox

1. Click Tools in the menu bar, then select Options.
2. Select Privacy from the menu in the left pane.
3. Press the Clear button next to the item marked Cache in the right pane.
4. Click OK to close the preferences window.
5. Close and relaunch your browser.

Clearing your Cache: Mac OS X: Firefox

1. Click Firefox in the menu bar, then select Preferences.
2. Select Privacy from the menu in the left pane.
3. Press the Clear button next to the item marked Cache in the right pane.
4. Click OK to close the preferences window.
5. Close and relaunch your browser.

Clearing your Cache: Linux/Unix: Firefox

1. Click Edit in the menu bar, then select Preferences.
2. Select Privacy from the menu in the left pane.
3. Press the Clear button next to the item marked Cache in the right pane.
4. Click OK to close the preferences window.
5. Close and relaunch your browser.

Clearing LiveJournal Cached Files Only
The Firefox cache does not lend itself to easily identifying where a cached file came from. The files are usually located in the user profile folder. However, there is no real identification of the source of a file. It is possible to manually open each file and find the relevant one, but for most users it will be more efficient to empty the cache.