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• Clear your browser's cache in Firefox • Clear your browser's cache in Chrome. Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL services, but is no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated. We recommend you download a new browser.
In versions of Firefox that display a single, orange "Firefox" button: click the "Firefox" button and click "Options". Select the "Advanced" section, and go to the "Network" tab, and click the "Clear Now" button. Then click "OK". When Firefox displays a menu bar, from the "Edit" or "Tools" menu, choose "Preferences" or "Options".
• Restore your browser's default settings in Firefox • Restore your browser's default settings in Chrome. While Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL products, it's no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated. Because of this, we recommend you download a supported browser for a more reliable and secure experience.
A web browser's cache stores temporary instances of web pages, allowing them to load faster next time you visit. Clearing your browser's cache is recommended if you're experiencing things like pages freezing, not loading, or being unresponsive.
A lightweight web browser is a web browser that sacrifices some of the features of a mainstream web browser in order to reduce the consumption of system resources, and especially to minimize the memory footprint. [1] [2] [3] The tables below compare notable lightweight web browsers.
A forward cache is a cache outside the web server's network, e.g. in the client's web browser, in an ISP, or within a corporate network. [3] A network-aware forward cache only caches heavily accessed items. [4]
Firefox 7 was released on September 27, 2011, [20] and uses as much as 50% less RAM than Firefox 4 as a result of the MemShrink project to reduce Firefox memory usage. [21] [22] [23] Firefox 7.0.1 was released a few days later to fix a rare, but serious, issue with add-ons not being detected by the browser. [24]
When PC Magazine in 2006 compared memory usage of Firefox 2, Opera 9, and Internet Explorer 7, they found that Firefox used approximately as much memory as each of the other two browsers. [309] In 2006, Softpedia noted that Firefox 1.5 took longer to start up than other browsers, [310] which was confirmed by further speed tests. [311]