229917 - "Empty Cache" menu option on the Tools menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11008

(Core :: Networking: Cache, enhancement)

Description

[Ilka Stromberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

As you all know, starting originally with Netscape, if one is involved in really
lengthy browsing sessions, and many open tabs, the PC eventually runs out of
memory.  This, thankfully, rarely happens with Mozilla 1.5 and above as opposed
to Netscape 7.1 (I assume thanks to less "memory leaks") but it can still happen
on really lenghty sessions and the usual trick is to remember to occasionally
empty the cache.  If one forgets to do it, the PC eventually locks up and the
ON/OFF switch is the only option.

It would be really useful to have an  "Empty Cache"  option straight off the 
TOOLS  menu rather than having to go all the way to  "Edit \ Preferences \
Advanced \ Cache \ Clear Cache".

Thanks
Ilka

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11008 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

Firefox has a single button in Prefs, which is a substantial improvement.