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How To Clear Cache On Firefox?

The cache in any web browser stores data such as images, scripts, videos, and other similar parts of the websites to improve its loading speed and enhance your browsing experience, the next time you visit the same website. Though, clearing the cache on Firefox and other browsers becomes important to troubleshoot problems with browser’s overall loading speed, or similar issues.

Delete Mozilla Firefox Cache

Follow the steps below to manually clear the browser cache anytime you encounter any browsing issue or otherwise:

  • Open Mozilla Firefox browser on your computer.
  • Click on the Menu button (indicated as three horizontal lines) at the top right corner.
  • Select Options from the list that opens.

Select Options in Firefox mozilla

  • Then, locate and choose Privacy & Security from the left-side panel.

Privacy and Security - Firefox Mozilla

  • Scroll down until you see Cookies and Site Data. Click on Clear Data.
  • You’ll get a dialog box prompt, check-mark Cached Web Content and click.

Cached Web Content

Automatically Clear The Firefox Cache

Well, as we already explained, you can tweak Firefox settings to automatically clear cache as soon as you close Firefox browser. To automate the process, follow these steps:

  • Open Mozilla Firefox browser app on your computer.
  • Click on the Menu button and go to Options.
  • Under Privacy & Security tab, locate History
  • You’ll see an option that says ‘Firefox will’ with a drop-down menu box. Choose Use custom settings for history.

Use Custom Setting for history on Firefox

  • When you choose custom settings from the drop down, you will see a list of options with adjacent checkboxes. Check mark the checkbox ahead to Clear history when Firefox closes.
  • Click on Settings, located beside the ‘clear history when Firefox closes’ section.

Clear History When Firefox closes

  • In the settings menu, check mark the box beside Cache, and click.

Check Mark The box Beside Cache

  • Close Firefox browser, and your settings will be saved.

Bonus Tip: Clear Firefox Cache Using Library Section

Apart from the ways explained above, there is one more way to delete Firefox cache i.e. using Mozilla Firefox Library. Here’s what you need to do:

  • Open Firefox app on your computer.
  • Go to the Library section from the Firefox Menu (three horizontal lines icon) at the top-right corner, and click on History.

Firefox History

  • Click on Clear Recent History.

Clear Recent History

  • On the next screen, next to Time range to clear, choose Everything from the drop-down menu. Next, checkmark everything along with Cache and click OK.

Clear All history

It will delete everything and the action cannot be undone. This is also a warning given by the browser itself (shown with an attention sign in the image above). The Firefox cache is now deleted.

Customize the Taskbar in Windows 10

There are many steps involved when you want to modify the windows 10 taskbar. Windows 10 has given us lots of options to personalize the computer. One such option is to change the taskbar color and task transparency. By doing this, we can change the appearance of the computer as per our wish. 

1. Use system settings to turn on transparency

Steps to turn on transparency from system settings:

  • Right-click on space on the desktop and choose “Personalization”

Personalize

  • Choose the “Colors” tab and then scroll down to the option “Transparency effects” turn it on. It will enable transparency effects on your computer.

Colors

2. Tweak transparency by using the registry editor

Steps to change transparency by using the registry editor: –

  • Open Run by pressing Windows + R key> type Regedit> Press OK

Regedit

  • Now navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
  • In space right click and select New> DWORD (32-bit)

Dword

  • Name the new value UseOLEDTaskbarTransparency

UseOLDTransparency

  • Now right click on value just created and click on Modify

Modify

  • Change the value from 0 to 1 and click Ok

Edit DWORD

  • Now refresh transparency settings by right-clicking on the desktop and select Personalization> Color> Transparency effects. Then switch off the transparency and again turn it on. You will be now able to see the new changes made by Registry tweak.

3. Change transparency by using third party apps

Classic Shell is the best third-party tool to personalize a taskbar.

  • Download, install and run Classic Shell

Download link- http://www.classicshell.net/

  • Once it is installed, then open it and select Windows 10 Settings tab from the header menu
  • Enable Customize Taskbar option and choose Transparent
  • Adjust Taskbar Opacity and click OK

4. Use TranslucentTB from Microsoft store to make the taskbar transparent

Translucent TB

This tool is available from the Microsoft store and it helps change the transparency of the taskbar.

  • Launch Microsoft Store by pressing Windows + S key and then type store in it.
    Microsoft Stor
  • In Microsoft store search bar, type TranslucentTB and click Get > Install> Launch
  • Once launched choose the transparency settings as per your wish.

All the above methods will change the taskbar transparency therefore you can choose any of them.

How to change the taskbar colors in Windows 10?

  • Right-click on Desktop and choose Personalization

Personalization

  • Click Colors

Colors setting

  • Click Choose to colors > Custom. This will instantly change the taskbar color

Custom

  • Click Choose your default Window mode> Dark

Dark Light

  • Click Custom color and use a color picker to select the color of your choice and click Done

Color Preview

  • Check Start, taskbar, and action center

Start Taskbar

Now you can see that  the taskbar will be in the custom color of your choice.

How to use Glarysoft File Recovery Pro?

We have all lost files due to various reasons, such as accidental deletion, or accidentally pressing the Shift + Delete shortcut key of a Windows computer, or virus damage or computer crash. Microsoft has released a utility system recovery tool in Windows 10. This tool can meet the needs of professional computer experts because they understand computer systems and can write codes. Users can find this Windows recovery tool in the Microsoft store. But Microsoft File Recovery only runs in the console command prompt mode, so you must follow the steps below.

Microsoft File Recovery

How to restore permanently deleted files directly in Windows? If you want to get a simple recovery tool and learn the detailed recovery process, let us try Glarysoft’s newly released file recovery tool: Glarysoft File Recovery. It provides users with an easy-to-use interface and easy-to-understand recovery techniques. After downloading and installing, the interface will display as following.

Glarysoft File Recovery

This guide will show step by step how to recover lost files with the Glarysoft File Recovery.

First, we need to view the lost files immediately. Therefore, it is necessary to scan the computer to find the lost files.

Select the drive or partition from the main interface, as showed in the picture below.

Glarysoft File Recovery

Step 1: Select and scan

If you want to recover photos from a SD card, the program will recognize the memory card after connecting the SD card to the computer. Select and scan the SD card, the files will be listed. Glarysoft File Recovery will perform scan sorting based on the file name, type, or creation date.

Glarysoft File Recovery

If you remember the name of the photo, please enter the name in the search button to save scanning time. The more information provided about the lost files, the shorter the scan time and the more accurate the scan results. For example, you can provide the size, type, format, or time period of the file.

Step 2: Recovery

After scanning, the interface will list all files in the window. You can preview the file from the view window.

Select the file you want to restore, then select the save path, and click the restore button.

In just two steps, your lost files have been restored to your computer.

Tip: Whether the lost files can be recovered depends on the time of deletion and subsequent operations. After deletion, the files may still be hidden in your computer or device. So please stop saving or deleting any files to reduce the chance of overwriting, which will provide you with more opportunities to recover files.

Glarysoft is committed to creating efficient software for users and has been working in this field for more than 15 years. This year, Glarysoft released two versions of the recovery tool. One is a completely free version: Glarysoft File Recovery Free and the other one is a paid version: Glarysoft File Recovery Pro. The free version is limited to recovering 3 files at most. If you prefer a free recovery tool, choose to download it from Glarysoft File Recovery Free.

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How to Recover Lost Videos and Photos from My Computer?

Many people store some videos and photos that record their beautiful memory on their computers. But if you lose them due to accidental deletion, formatting, improper operation, or computer virus, how sad it is. Here we provide you a way to recover lost videos and photos to retrieve your happy memories.

We recommend a simple and efficient file recovery tool: Glarysoft File Recovery.

This tool is free, no ads or malware, and it just takes a few simple steps to recover lost and deleted videos and photos. It supports the recovery of almost all file types, including photos, videos, documents, etc. It can not only recover from computers, USB drives, but also from external memory cards (such as camera storage devices). The most important thing is it’s easy to use, even beginners can also operate to complete the recovery.

How to recover lost videos, photos from your computer with Glarysoft File Recovery?

Step1: Download and install Glarysoft File Recovery from here:

https://www.glarysoft.com/file-recovery-free/

Double-click the icon on the desktop to start it on Windows.

Step2: Scan

A: Select the location of the lost data.

Please select a hard disk.

Support scanning FAT, NTFS, NTFS + EFS file systems

B: Click “Scan”, Glarysoft File Recovery will start a full scan on the selected location. Usually, it takes a few minutes to complete. However, if there are many large files, more time is required.

Of course, during the scanning process, you can pause or stop the operation by clicking the button bottom.

C. After the scan results appear, you can filter files according to Name, Type, Size, Last modified, etc., and locate them precisely to narrow the scope of the results.

You can also locate it further by File Types or Folder on the left panel.

Step3: Preview and Recover

A: Glarysoft File Recovery allows you to preview recoverable files in advance. You can select the target file, and then preview to confirm whether the file is you need.

B: After previewing the files and confirming, check the files that need to be restored. Then directly click the “Recover” button to retrieve the lost data, and select the path to save the restored files to complete.

Tips: Please do not save the file to the same location to avoid overwriting the data.

Step4: Recover data from the external device

If your videos and photos are lost from external devices on your Windows computer, such as external hard drives, memory cards, SD cards, digital cameras, drone cameras, USB flash drives, etc., Glarysoft File Recovery can also help you recover them. The different step is that external devices need to be connected to the computer. Make sure it can be recognized or detected. Then follow the above steps for file recovery.

Note: The Free version provides a limit on the number of recovering files. For more recovery needs, upgrade the free version to Pro. The price of Glarysoft File Recovery Pro is reasonable, there are single or annual packages, you can choose the suitable plan according to your needs.

Hope this program can help you!