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# Technical help please.
I tried installing mozilla, but then uninstalled it, but now, my Temp internet files don't automatically delete when the folder fills up anymore. anyone know how to handle this?
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:29, archived)
# Mozilla doesn't touch
Temporary Internet Files - it has its own (more secure! Could you have guessed?) cacheing system.
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:30, archived)
# does it really need to be secure
who is actually going to break into your browser cache?
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:33, archived)
# Hackers!
Duh!
8o))
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:36, archived)
# my general attitude to computer security is that it doesn't matter
since no one's going to be interested enough to want to look.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:37, archived)
# My attitude is
j0 j0 I iz t3h 1337357 I is t3h ownz0r hax0r!!!!!11111
Really.
*edit* Actually, your browser cache info is quite valuable to marketers and is often exposed by spyware components installed with dodgy p2p clients...
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:47, archived)
# bah
i can't get into opera's cache as i can't be arsed to download some plugin doodah, so there's no way anyone else is getting in there.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:58, archived)
# Opera's is
well secure as well - not sure how to actually acces those files...!
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:59, archived)
# mozilla will keep it's cache somewhere else
it's probably somewhere in IE's internet options, there's probably a tickbox saying "empty temporary internet files when..." or something.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:31, archived)
# i oculdn't find it, but i'll have to look some more i guess.
I don't know that it was Mozilla, but I had no problems with my temp internet files till i installed it, and now it doesn't work.
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:41, archived)
# Edit>Preferences>Web Browser>Advanced>Cache:Empty cache now
should do it for IE5

/edit this time it's right! sorry!
(Monkeypuppet, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:44, archived)
# Doesn't work for me. I have no "prefs" tab under edit.
all i have is an "internet options" under tools. thanks all, though. i'll just have to keep looking 'round.
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:47, archived)
# Just ran IE to check (ugh)
In tools -> options is a delete Temp Files bit in the first tab... Been there since IE4 IIRC...
...why did you uninstall moz?
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:53, archived)
# i don't use it when i don't have to
it's big, fat and slow. my machine cannae cope. mind you, it's still there, just unused.
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 22:58, archived)
# I happily dedicate a full
40MB of valuable RAM to it and this P3 copes fine... I just can't Opera - I know it's fast but it's also fucked - a very bare attempt to comply to defined standards... Opera is always the 'dodgy' test when I'm writing pages.
(I helped save b3ta! helmetcream, Thu 23 Jan 2003, 23:02, archived)