264114 - no easy way to view stored cache in Options--->Privacy--->Cache

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255544

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Gregor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041006 Firefox/0.10.1

When you go into Tools-->Options-->Privacy-->Cache, there is no button available
to view the stored cache.  This is available in IE and is a useful feature.  The
cookies menu has it right when it shows a "View cookies" button and pops up a
menu so you can view the cookies on your computer.  Solution:  Add "View Cache"
button.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Tools
2.Options
3.Privacy
4.Cache
5.No button - can't see cache :(

Actual Results:  
I couldn't find out what cache the browser was storing.

Expected Results:  
It should have shown a button that said "view cache" like the "view cookies"
button in the cookies part of the privacy tab.

No additional information - sorry

Comment 1

[Gregor]

This might be similar to bug 255544  .  Although there should be a button that
pops up the cache manager.

As long as I can see the cache, I'm happy ;)

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

You can see the contents of the cache by going to about:cache.

Comment 3

[Gregor]

(In reply to comment #2)
> You can see the contents of the cache by going to about:cache.

That's fantastic and I didn't know that - however... there should still be a
button to link to about:cache or some sort of warning in the menu that tells you
about that feature.  How will people just starting out know about that if they
are used to the IE way?  

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Confirming feature request.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 255544 (as suggested by the reporter itself)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255544 ***

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change