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  17 <date>2003-10-12</date>
  18 <releaseinfo>3.2</releaseinfo>
  19
  20 <keywordset>
  21 <keyword>KDE</keyword>
  22 <keyword>KControl</keyword>
  23 <keyword>Konqueror</keyword>
  24 <keyword>Cache</keyword>
  25 </keywordset>
  26 </articleinfo>
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  28 <sect1 id="cache">
  29 <title>Cache</title>
  30
  31 <para>This module allows you to control the size of the local cache
  32 folder used by &konqueror;. Note that each user account on your
  33 computer has a separate cache folder, and this folder is not
  34 shared with other web browsers such as &Netscape;.</para>
  35
  36 <para>Storing local copies of web pages that you have visited allows
  37 &konqueror; to quickly load their contents on subsequent visits. It
  38 will only be necessary to reload the contents from the original site
  39 if they have changed since your last visit, or if you click the reload
  40 button in &konqueror;.</para>
  41
  42 <para>If you really don't want any of the web pages you visit to be
  43 stored on your computer, you can disable &konqueror;'s disk cache by
  44 clearing the checkbox labeled <guilabel>Use cache</guilabel>.</para>
  45
  46 <para>You can set here how aggressively &konqueror; keeps the cache up
  47 to date. <guilabel>Keep cache in sync</guilabel> means that &konqueror;
  48 will hit the cache for all objects, downloading them if they are not
  49 there, and then display the item from the cache.  <guilabel>Use cache
  50 whenever possible</guilabel> means that &konqueror; will try the cache,
  51 and if an object is not there, it will directly download it for display.
  52 <guilabel>Offline browsing mode</guilabel> means that &konqueror; will
  53 try the cache, and if an object is not there, it will not attempt to
  54 download it from the Internet.</para>
  55
  56 <para>You can control the size of the cache by typing a number into the
  57 text box labeled <guilabel>Disk cache size</guilabel>.  This is the
  58 average amount of space in kilobytes that the cache folder is allowed
  59 to use. When the cache grows too large, &konqueror; will delete older
  60 files to reduce the size of the cache folder.</para>
  61
  62 <para>This is however, only an average, and during a browsing session
  63 the cache could become substantially larger.</para>
  64
  65 <para>You can use the <guibutton>Clear Cache</guibutton> button to empty
  66 the cache at any time.</para>
  67 </sect1>
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