In article <715a976250.old_coas...@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>, Tony Moore <old_coas...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 28 May 2009, Michael Drake <t...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote: > > In article <55618f6250.roger...@rogerarm.freeuk.com>, > > Roger Darlington <roger...@freeuk.com> wrote:
> [snip] > > > This also prompted me to look in ScrapDirs.WWW.NetSurf.Cache. This > > > contains a whopping 202MB in 5866 files. > > > > The reason for the slow load and big cache is you have NetSurf set to > > remember a year of browsing history. > > > > In NetSurf's choices choose Security, and lower the value for Duration > > in Site history. The default it 28 days. > In my copy of NetSurf, Site history is set to 1 day, but Global history > still has entries for Yesterday, Tuesday, Monday, Last week, 2 weeks ago > and 3 weeks ago. If I understand it right, the site history setting controls how long things like thumbnails are kept in the cache. I think the global history is fixed at 28 days. Michael -- Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
