Speed and Cache
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Thanks for responding, and thanks for making TenFourFox better
and better.
Is there any way to speed it up? I still get the spinning beach
ball
sometimes; it freezes up occasionally. How do I empty the
cache?
Thanks again.
Liliane Miller
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Chris (chtrusch... on 20 Feb, 2016 08:14 AM
Hello Liliane, given the age of PPC Macs and the load Firefox/Tenfourfox and modern websites with a lot of Javascript put on our systems there is no way around seeing the spinning beachball occasionally.
Generally, make sure you're only using add-ons that you really need. Go to Tools>Add-ons>Extensions and disable the ones you don't use. When you have lots of add-ons it's also advisable to wait a minute after TFF was started initially before loading websites, especially on slower Macs.
Also, here's an older article on LowEndMac with some tips which are still useful:
http://lowendmac.com/2013/speed-up-tenfourfox-on-your-g3g4/
Empty the cache this way: Go to Preference>Advanced>Network>Cached Web Content and click Clear Now. It's certainly well hidden.