How to turn off caching on Firefox?

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Thilo picture Thilo · Nov 14, 2008 · Viewed 123.1k times · Source

During development I have to "clear cache" in Firefox all the time in order to make it use the latest version of JavaScript files.

Is there some kind of setting (about:config) to turn off caching completely for JavaScript files? Or, if not, for all files?

Answer

tst picture tst · Nov 14, 2008

Enter "about:config" into the Firefox address bar and set:

browser.cache.disk.enable = false
browser.cache.memory.enable = false

If developing locally, or using HTML5's new manifest attribute you may have to also set the following in about:config -

browser.cache.offline.enable = false

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