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Clearing Your Browser's Cache
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If you know that
in the past your browser used to operate a lot faster and
smoother, one simple solution may be to clear its cache... Each time you open a Web page, your browser creates a cache file (a temporary copy) of the page's text and graphics. When you open the page again, your browser checks the Web site server for changes to the page. If the page has changed, your browser retrieves a new version over the Internet. If the page hasn't changed, your browser uses the cache files from your RAM or hard drive to display the page. For example, Netscape Navigator caches Web pages to both memory (RAM) and disk (hard drive) until the respective cache is full; Navigator then rotates out pages based on age.
Benefits
of Cache Cache
was designed to help you load Web pages quicker. However, if
you've viewed lots of Web pages, you may have an overloaded hard disk cache. You can check
your cache in Netscape by typing ABOUT:CACHE in the Location box and pressing Enter.
Navigator will display a breakdown of cache statistics and a file-by-file
listing.
To
Clear your Cache To clear your cache
in Navigator 4.x, go to the Edit menu and select Preferences..., then go to the
Advanced category at the bottom, select Cache, and click both the Clear Memory Cache and Clear
Disk Cache buttons (See figure 1).
To clear your cache
in Internet Explorer, go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options....
(Some versions of IE you will have to go to view and select Options) Then
click on the General tab at the top. Go to the Temporary Internet files section and click Delete Files
(See figure 2). Both of these
procedures will delete the temporary files that these Web browsers use to
redisplay pages. These temporary files can take up lots of hard disk and RAM
space, and slow down you computer. Clearing your cache will not adversely affect
your browser in any way and it can help decrease your page download time and
improve your computer's general performance. |
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