756115 - Clear Cache Setting for Fennec

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

1. Requesting a Clear Cache setting that will clear stored cache (not the history links in the history folder but the cache itself:

/data/data/org.mozilla.fennec_decoder/files/mozilla/<profile>/Cache

2. Also have some sort of messaging stating that the load time will be a little slower on the first load if the cache is cleared for previously visited websites.

Note:
1. clear history clears the history links in the awesome page, but does not clear the cache
2. clear private data will clear a lot of info in the cache directory and it will clear the passwords, forms etc. as well which might not be desired.

Outcome from bug 754575

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Sounds like this can be a part of bug 754335 if it's ever implemented.

Comment 2

[Christopher Smith]

I'd like to note support for this bug; the lack of any way to simply clear the cache combined with the inability to perform a deep reload (like Shift-Reload on the desktop) makes development a headache as well as provides the opportunity for the browser to get wedged in a maddening state where it's cached a corrupted or otherwise buggy download.  Clearing the cache shouldn't be a massive ordeal; it's a straightforward, commonplace operation whose absence is both conspicuous and puzzling.

On a related note, for Android specifically, this would be a nonissue if Firefox actually stored its cache in the system cache directory instead of in the app data directory, since the app manager already provides support for cache cleaning.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

This was fixed in bug 754335.

Comment 4

[Christopher Smith]

This fix is for the 15.0 release?

Comment 5

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Yes. We changed Clear Private Data to bring up a list of things that can be cleared. Its in the current Firefox Beta in the market.

Comment 6

[Christopher Smith]

Thanks!  This has been causing hair loss all afternoon, and I'm glad to hear that the fix is already in the pipe.