How to permanently Disable Firefox from storing
web caches and how to delete a web cache for a particular web
page
If you're a web developed you probably have experience "the curse
of the developer" (the web browser caching).
Web caching is really annoying if you have to test your scripts via
a browser.
Therefore
completely disabling the Firefox cache on firefox
is a definite prerequirement before you can start serious web
development.
Here is few steps through which you can disable Firefox
caching:
1. Launch your firefox browser
2. Type about:config in your browser address
bar
3. Type 'cache' in the Filter search bar and look for the
variable network.http.use-cache
Double click the
network.http.use-cache variable and set it
to false.
If you further want to further
enable / disable the Firefox /
Iceweasel web cache simply click the same variable twice and
the browser web caching will be enabled once again.
Disabling the
network.http.use-cache should be also
beneficial if you're accessing the internet or any domain via a
Squid or other kinds of web proxys.
Another handy
"feature" embedded into Firefox is the reload
of a page and it's dependencies without quering the browser cache
(that in case if the browser cache is enabled).
So if you want to temporary disable the web browser from using
cache for a cetrain web page
hold the SHIFT key and then press
the browser reload button or
holding the CTRL button + the
browser reload button a quick shortcut is also available
through pressing
CTRL + R
This kind of
temporary disable cache for a webpage goody is
also available in Internet Explorer (IE) 6 and 7 as well as the
MacOS X Safari and possibly other brothers too.
If it's necessary for you to delete the web cache stored just for a
particular web page then in
= >Firefox 3.0.x and consider
using Firefox's
Cookie Editor to start using it navigate
to:
Tools -- > Cookie Editor
The
Cookie Editor is also available in Debian's Iceweasel,
so the explained ways to clear up cache should be also available in
Linux.