296238 - Cannot choose cache location

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251016

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Robert Inder]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050527 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050527 Firefox/1.0.4

Firefox offers no way for users to set the location of the cache.
This can drive incremental backup software crazy!

This bug looks identical to 50174 and 47018.  They are both marked as duplicates
of 46490.  And 46490 was marked as "Fixed" in March '04.

But there is still no way that I can see to set the location of the cache
directory. So something has apparently blocked or undone that fix...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start firefox
2.Search the Preferences (or options...) menu for a way to change the cache
directory. 
3.

Actual Results:  
I didn't find one.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

You need to set the user preference "browser.cache.directory" in about:config or
user.js.

If you are requesting an option in the options menu then this is probably WontFix.

-> WFM/Invalid/WontFix ?

Comment 2

[Robert Inder]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You need to set the user preference "browser.cache.directory" in about:config 
> or user.js.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, "browser.cache.directory" does not
appear in about:config.

I've now tried putting

   user.pref("browser.cache.directory", "/s2/Scratch/robert/FirefoxCache");

into user.js.  However, it appears to be silently ignored.  At least, when I
subsequently restart Firefox, it creates and uses a Cache directory in the usual
place ("/home/robert/.mozilla/PROFILENAME/Cache".

> If you are requesting an option in the options menu then this is probably WontFix.
> 
> -> WFM/Invalid/WontFix ?

I'm requesting a documented way to control the location of the cache directory.
It looks like bug 46490 go submerged into UI layout problems.  I'd be perfectly
happy with a line in a config file if
   a) it were mentioned in the Help, Preferences panel or whatever, and
   b) it actually made a difference to Firefox's behaviour.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251016 ***