I’m not sure exactly when it started, but clearing your cache has almost become a thing that folks do on a regular basis these days. Thanks to the Clear Your Cache Firefox extension, you can now do so by just one click on your toolbar. Clearing your cache has never been so easy.

After installing the extension, all you need to do is find the icon for it in your toolbar customization panel. Once it is there, click it and you are done. Recently they added the requested feature of transparency to icons to play nice with themes. So now you know it looks good as too.

As I said before, I’m not really sure when this trend started. I can remember a few years back when I didn’t care about my cache. I didn’t know if it was big or small. I didn’t know if it was full or empty. What benefits do you gain by clearing this information out?

All those files stored in your cache take up space, so from time to time, you may want to clear out the files stored in your cache to free up some space on your computer. Clearing your cache has also been known to increase your browser speeds as well.

This Firefox extension is for versions 1.5 to 1.6a of the browser. If you want to give it a shot and install it yourself, you can do so over at the Mozilla Update Web site.

Tags: firefox, extensions, browsers, cache