106099 - Cache does not honor the user_pref browser.cache.directory

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78480

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Michael Koehn]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5+)
Gecko/20011022
BuildID:    2001102203

When I set the pref user.cache.directory by hand (editing prefs.js), about:cache
still shows the default cache directory and no cache files are created in the
specified directory.  I see this on NT4 and W2K

I see this problem in NS 6.1 as well, so it may have been around for a while.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Exit Moz/Netscape
2. Edit prefs.js, changing the value for browser.cache.directory
3. Save prefs.js
4. Run Mozilla
5. Browse some pages
6. Go to about:cache, notice the directory listed (not what you entered in 2).
7. Look at the cache directory you specified.  There are no new files there.

Actual Results:  Specified cache directory not used

Expected Results:  Mozilla should use the specified cache directory

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46490 ***

Comment 2

[gordon]

Yes, the prefs were not working properly for 6.1.  This has been fixed for
0.9.4, however the new preference is "browser.cache.disk.parent_directory".  The
disk cache device will create a cache folder in the specified directory, this
avoids most the worst side effects caused by users accidently specifying their
root directory or some other important directory.  On some platforms, cache
files used to get sprayed all over the place or important files could get
deleted when the cache was cleared.

Comment 3

[Diego Biurrun]

This is a dupe of another bug.

Comment 4

[Diego Biurrun]

The pref is now called browser.cache.disk.parent_directory.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78480 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

VERIFIED, dupe.