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Subject: Re: browser.cache.disk.parent_directory in firefox
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Rich Winkel <rich@math.missouri.edu> writes:

> I'd like to move firefox's cache dir into tmp, under a user-specific
> parent directory.  How can I specify the userid in the argument to
> browser.cache.disk.parent_directory in the system-wide firefox.js settings
> file?
> Something like
> user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "/tmp/ffCache/$USER");

Sounds like a question that would be better asked of the mozilla
folks.  

You could always try a symbolic-link approach...

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/