Phoenix Browser: Controlling its CACHE location manually?

[adamvjackson 0]

Sure you can, APK...

 

Before I tell you exactly how, though, you might want to type:

 

about:config

 

or

 

about:cache

 

in the address bar.

 

Now, here's your answer!

[adamvjackson 0]

Glad you got it working, but IIRC, you have to create the user.js file as it does not exist by default. That forum is for Phoenix, it's just hosted at Mozillazine.org.

 

Just for the sake of argument, or exoneration of that member... Can you try removing/commenting out the line in prefs.js and create a new user.js?

 

Looking at the user.js that I created this past weekend, it should be located in:

 

\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\(random string ending in .slt)\

 

After reading the forums at MozillaZine, below is the contents of my user.js, for reference, in case you want any of the modifications I have made.

 

Code:

// Stop reusing active windows:user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);// Disable target="_blank" (open in same window):user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window", true);// Turn off automatic image resizing:user_pref("browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing", false);// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true);// Disable custom bookmark iconsuser_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false);user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", false);// Put an end to <blink> tags!user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);// Force frames to be resizable   pref("layout.frames.force_resizability", false);// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);// Enable pipelining:user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

 

If you have any questions on those settings, just let me know.

 

[adamvjackson 0]

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Hell, @ least YOU know that & told me... he never stated it in that link URL above (again, see for yourself... I hate that, that's IMPRECISE & assumes knowledge on the part of the end-user looking for answers!)

Don't you agree with me there?

I do agree. You know what they say about assumption.

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Got ya... would not really matter I imagine, why? Well, because Mozilla & Phoenix come out of the SAME codebase, & I imagine what holds true for Mozilla in the way of config files would for Phoenix... at least 90% of the time!

That's true. Recent annoucements from the Mozilla dev team seem to indicate that Mozilla may follow Phoenix's lead and remove the IRC and email clients in favor of seperate apps, so the codebase may become even more alike, possibly even a project merge between the new Mozilla browser and Phoenix. I guess we'll have to wait and see, but it is an exciting time, a new browser war!

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Just for the sake of argument, or exoneration of that member... Can you try removing/commenting out the line in prefs.js and create a new user.js?

I did all that, & it did nada & in fact caused me to have an error at the startup of Phoenix... with an error msg. of "invalid character in startup configuration files contact administrator".

Javascript looks ALOT like C/C++ code, so that error was not one I would make believe me... I know those 2 languages VERY well!

So, I burnt the user.js file, & did it how it is done in the MOZILLA prefs.js file with the exact line that user there had, except it was also in the MOZILLA prefs.js file, so I mirrored it into PHOENIX's prefs.js file...

AND, it works! How am I SO sure? Well, I looked under the OLD cache folder & no more files are being formed there & on my Ramdrive now in the PhoenixCacheTemp folder I made, there are files forming... cached files!

This method seems to work & cause me NO error messages etc.

That's good to know, a pretty major mistake on the forum poster's part. I didn't know that, either, so thanks for setting me straight as well!

I would suggest you take a look at these two settings in peticular, as they seem to make loading of pages much faster, even more so if there is a cached copy on your Cenatek RocketDrive!

Code:

// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);// Enable pipelining:user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

[adamvjackson 0]

Here's some more information I found regarding the roadmap for Mozilla and Phoenix.

 

From MozillaZine:

 

"Major Roadmap Update Centers Around Phoenix, Thunderbird; 1.4 Branch to Replace 1.0; Changes Planned for Module Ownership Model"

 

http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3042.html

 

And the official Mozilla development roadmap:

 

http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html

 

And the obligitory comments from Slashdot on the subject:

 

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/04/02/2013222.shtml?tid=154&tid=156

 

[adamvjackson 0]

You can get the 'nightly' compile from here:

 

http://komodo.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/nightly/latest-trunk/

 

Not a problem, I'm glad I could help... I'm somewhat of a newbie to Mozilla/Phoenix too, but I just happened across this customization mini-project this past weekend.

 

I liked your analogy for the config files. I would assume that prefs.js would apply as a global settings template and user.js would vary to the currently logged on user, but I haven't verified that. Makes sense, anyway.

 

Good luck, if you have questions, just post... We can sort through them together!

[adamvjackson 0]

Downloading now... Thanks for the heads-up.