Closed Bug 1444085 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Limit cache setting has been removed as of Firefox 60? Was this intentional?

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

60 Branch
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

VERIFIED INVALID
Tracking Status
firefox-esr52 --- unaffected
firefox58 --- unaffected
firefox59 --- unaffected
firefox60 --- affected

People

(Reporter: dev.tcrawford, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Build ID: 20180308100121 Steps to reproduce: By navigating to Options -> Privacy & Settings, it appears the ability to limit cache to any amount has been removed. Actual results: "Limit cache" has been removed from settings and the ability to just remove cache one time has been placed in the "Cookies and Site Data" section instead. During testing of websites, it was very useful to set the "Limit cache" ability to 0mb without needing to have the Developer Tools open all of the time with the "Disable cache" option checked. Expected results: My personal expected results were to see the ability to limit cache to a certain value. This may have been an intentional choice to deprecate this feature. However, if it was not, I wanted to report it as a possible feature that missed getting implemented in the new changes.
Confirmed. Disabling cache or changing it value is now harder per no GUI option in Preferences.
Severity: normal → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Preferences
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Whiteboard: [storage-v2][triage]
Yup, that was intentional and done in bug 1422160. Thank you for reporting your use case, but it enforces our opinion that this is mostly used for developer purposes (or for edge cases that warrant editing about:config).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Whiteboard: [storage-v2][triage]
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