Right-click into the window and create a new string.In Firefox open the configuration page by typing “about:config” into the address bar.So why not just move the cache back into the user profile, preferably the non-roaming local part of it? The Firefox profile contains the Cache subdirectory, and cached data is not what I regard as worthy to occupy space on my backup solution.
#FIREFOX OS X CACHE LOCATION INSTALL#
Once you reinstall your OS, you just have to install Firefox, repeat the steps above (point it to its profile on your data drive) and you have everything back, including all plugins. With the entire profile on your data partition, you can now safely delete drive C: without losing your Firefox configuration. Your profiles.ini should now look similar to this: Enter the absolute Path to where you want to Firefox profile to be stored.By default there is only once section that contains the location of your default (and probably only) profile.Open the file profiles.ini which is located in your user profile (%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox).With Firefox (at least from version 2.x to 3.5.x) it goes like this: How exactly to accomplish this move is different from application to application. That makes it necessary to move the config data from the user profile to my data partition. Needless to say, I do not want to lose that config work when I change the OS along with the user profile. While I do not bother with most program’s settings, some applications I configure and tune heavily. Most programs store their settings in the user user profile, which is typically located in the OS partition (on Windows Vista and 7 the location would be C:\Users\ Username). Moving the Firefox Profile to a Different Drive Separation of data from all the other stuff is an old principle and makes it possible to just delete the OS partition whenever you feel like it without giving the safety of your precious data too much thought. On my computers I try to keep my data on its own partition, well away from program files and other stuff that gets (re-) created anyway when I install a new OS.