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Mozilla Firefox - Security and Privacy

Temporarily Clear the Website Cache

SUMMARY: For privacy or speed, learn how to remove all content from Mozilla Firefox's disk cache.

Is Mozilla Firefox running too slowly? Are previously-viewed web pages not rendering correctly? Or do you need to delete personally-identifiable information to increase your privacy? For these and other reasons you may wish to temporarily clear Firefox's website cache. There are several ways to do this - below is one way:

1. Click "Tools" - "Options".

2. When the "Options" dialog box appears, click the "Advanced" button.

3. Click the "Network" tab.

4. Underneath "Offline Storage", click the "Clear Now" button.

Clearing the cache in Firefox 3

5. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

This tip was written for Mozilla Firefox v3.0.10. Screenshots and instructions for other versions may vary.