Firefox 3.5 do not respect the cache size setting – limits it to 8192 files
29 Aug
There is an urban legend about bill gates of microsoft saying in the old DOS days that 640KB of RAM should be enough for everybody. It seems like someone in the mozilla organization is thinking along the same lines of thought, and while you actually have an option to change the amount of disk space which can be used by caching, the practical limits are not a lot higher then the default of 50MB as firefox, as the real limiting factor on the usage of the cache is an obscure technical decision to limit the number of files in the cache to 8192, a limit which is reached very easily today with all the small javascripts and images you get from every site.
The relevant bug contains a very small patch which probably solves the problems, but for sure normal users will not be able to set up the build environment required to build firefox, and even most of the geeks will have trouble doing so. In any case no one really wants to fork firefox just because of this bug….
So what can be done until the high console of mozilla will decide to solve this bug? Install a caching proxy!. Unfortunatly I could not find a nice small one in 5 minutes search on the net. All I have found were ad blocking non-caching proxies which are not interesting in this context 
