Advice Request How often to clear my browser cache?

[amirr]

Just out of curiosity, how often do you clean your browser cache and why? I usually clean every six or eight months.

 

[Kongo]

On browser exit.

 

[oldschool]

On browser exit.

Exactly. It's a good practice for security and cleaning any leftover tracking junk, etc.

 

[plat]

Daily, whenever I shut down the computer for the night Some session cookies I like to keep thruout the day as I sometimes return to a site later in the day and don't want to sign in or configure the site again. I see in Edge, you can add sites to keep their cookies and ditch any others but I myself would rather retain the control than have a very minor convenience.

I've found that if you don't clear the caches with some regularity, many websites I use malfunction after a while--like passwords don't register or the site doesn't load properly or at all.

 

[amirr]

I see in Edge, you can add sites to keep their cookies and ditch any others but I myself would rather retain the control than have a very minor convenience.

Yes, I know, but I prefer CCleaner's options such as Cookies to keep.

 

[CyberTech]

I use Private browsing mode as always

 

[Balrog]

When closing the browser, also almost daily I remove as much as possible from% temp%.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Nowadays usually never. Page loads faster with cache, so that's what I prefer. Removing cache regularly writes excessive amount of data on the disk specially Firefox.
I have also moved my browsers cache folder to the HDD instead of the default location of SSD to reduce the amount of data written on the SSD.
I used to be privacy-sensitive, but not anymore. I use Google as my search engine, use an android phone, browsers history, bookmarks are synced (Edge & Firefox), have accounts on most popular social media sites except TikTok. So deleting cache daily won't/barely do any good for me privacy wise.
But when I visit suspicious sites to watch free live streams, download malware, etc., I always use the Private Mode of the browser.

 

[amirr]

Nowadays usually never. Page loads faster with cache, so that's what I prefer. Removing cache regularly writes excessive amount of data on the disk specially Firefox.
I have also moved my browsers cache folder to the HDD instead of the default location of SSD to reduce the amount of data written on the SSD.
I used to be privacy-sensitive, but not anymore. I use Google as my search engine, use an android phone, browsers history, bookmarks are synced (Edge & Firefox), have accounts on most popular social media sites except TikTok. So deleting cache daily won't/barely do any good for me privacy wise.
But when I visit suspicious sites to watch free live streams, download malware, etc., I always use the Private Mode of the browser.

Me too.

 

[roger_m]

Literally never. I don't see any need to do that, although there are occasions where cleaning the cache can actually increase performance.

I only close my browser every few weeks, when I'm going to reboot, or if I'm having issues with the browser, or to update it.

 

[Jan Willy]

Clearing the cache is the remedy to prevent etag tracking. See No Cookies, No Problem — Using ETags For User Tracking

 

[SpiderWeb]

Once every 6 months when sites start breaking. Clearing my browser doesn't clear my data from those servers so I don't see how it's beneficial to delete after every close. Websites now track you through etags and TLS sessions.

 

[amirr]

Once every 6 months when sites start breaking.

How do you find out that a website is breaking? What are the symptoms?

 

[SpiderWeb]

How do you find out that a website is breaking? What are the symptoms?

When certain elements don't load or when everyone talks about new features that I can't see lol

 

[blackice]

Nowadays usually never. Page loads faster with cache, so that's what I prefer. Removing cache regularly writes excessive amount of data on the disk specially Firefox.
I have also moved my browsers cache folder to the HDD instead of the default location of SSD to reduce the amount of data written on the SSD.
I used to be privacy-sensitive, but not anymore. I use Google as my search engine, use an android phone, browsers history, bookmarks are synced (Edge & Firefox), have accounts on most popular social media sites except TikTok. So deleting cache daily won't/barely do any good for me privacy wise.
But when I visit suspicious sites to watch free live streams, download malware, etc., I always use the Private Mode of the browser.

This is me too. At this point I just like things to work. Nothing was any different when I was being a privacy nut, except everything took more work. And I wasn’t hiding much anyway.

 

[Chuck57]

Every day, sometimes several times a day when I close the browser. I've always thought it's just a good idea.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

No set schedule, whenever I feel like it, sometimes once a month, sometimes once every 3 months, only clean it because it can get rather large.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I think everyone should clear cache everytime after your browser updates
new browser version may have problems with old caches
I did see it happened

 

[brambedkar59]

Cleaning cache daily? now that's just being paranoid. Stay safe not paranoid @oldschool ᵀᴹ

I have also moved my browsers cache folder to the HDD instead of the default location of SSD to reduce the amount of data written on the SSD.

If anyone's wondering how to do that. (for chromium edge)

 

[silversurfer]

Just out of curiosity, how often do you clean your browser cache and why?

After every new browser update, so on Edge almost weekly and on Firefox once per month, depends when updates are available