Trash Your Cache!

If you're like me, you live for Today, or maybe Tomorrow. And you value disk space on your hard drive like nobody's business. As for pages you've already viewed, the concept is, "Been there, browsed that!" If you're really interested in the page you'll bookmark it or download the source code to view locally.

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When reading fairly long pages like The Theory of Celestial Influence, download the page and read it offline.
Why, then, is there like 5M being devoted to crapola you've already seen and escaped from? Because your browser manufacturer unilaterally decided that you'd want to flip back through a load of bunk instead of bravely forging forward to unseen ecstacies! This stuff, roughly the size of the complete works of Shakespeare, will be sitting in your history cache should you get lost in the labyrinthan maze of some addle-brained corporate webdesigner or lunatic-fringe kook.

Some people, especially those with slow modems or those researchers wading through mountains of errata to uncover a pearl of wisdom, may find a big history to be functionally efficient, provided they actually use the "Back" function. But if you're like me and a certain italian racecar driver (who broke off his rearview mirror citing that he drove too fast to be concerned with what went on behind him) you prefer to curse the slow reload time in some possible future than to rue the lost disk space.

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MSIE Netscape
1. Go to the "View" pull-down menu.
2. Select "Options".
3. Click on the tab marked "Advanced".
4. In the box marked "Temporary Internet files", click the button marked "Settings..."
5. Set the slider marked, "Amount of disk space tp use", to 1%.
6. Click the "Empty Folder" button.
7. Click "Okay" in the pop-up idiotbox.
8. Click "Okay" in the "Settings" box.
9. Click "Okay" in the "Options" box, returning you to the browser screen. 		1. Go to the "Options" pull-down menu.
2. Select "Network Preferences".
3. Select the "Cache" tab. (It may already be selected)
4. Set "Cache Size" to 1M.
5. Hit the "Clear Disk Cache Now" button.
6. An idiotbox will appear, asking you if you want to continue. Hit "Okay".
7. At the bottom right of the screen, hit the "Apply" button
8. Next to it, hit the "Okay" button, returning you to the browser screen.

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