Why Firefox doesn't create so many temporary files in the cache? Once it filled all space (46GB)?

Every now and then, Firefox will have created zillions of directories and the files cached in the directory for a Firefox profile. The directories are called 0 (zero) and F (using the hexagonal as numbers names, i.e.g), and within each of them will be more directories (with two names of hexadecimal digit). The last time this happened (2 weeks ago), these directories ate ALL my free space on the hard drive (about 46 GB of a value).

Why does this happen? Can I stop it from happening? If so, how?

Thank you.

Yes, it should be easy reset.

It can be put in

  • Options-> | Advanced | --> | Network | -> Web content caching
    Management of auto-cache to replace]
  • See #w cached web-contentweb-content-_cached

Probably your auto adjustment has been replaced and the box should uncheck.

I know that Firefox split cache up like this IIRC it allows faster cache and solves fragmentation issues.

46GB which seems a surprising amount and cannot be good if he eats all the hard disk space. I also know that the file places.sqlite is a variable size, but it is based on the system in use.

The regular HTTP cache is also defined without doubt intelligently, but can be replaced by the user
This has some background info

My own settings seen in everything: support are

browser.cache.disk.capacity	358400
browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value	266240
browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run	false

My use of the cache is limited to about 350 MB

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