# Toggle Cache

> Disables or enables the browser cache.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/togglecache](https://chrome-stats.com/d/togglecache)

## Overview

- **ID:** `togglecache`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Manuel Reimer
- **Category:** web-development,other
- **Daily users:** 607
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 4.77 / 5 (13 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2021-08-04
- **First published:** 2019-01-15
- **Size:** 15 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/togglecache/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/M-Reimer/togglecache/issues](https://github.com/M-Reimer/togglecache/issues)

## Description

Toggle Cache is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to help developers and testers manage their browser cache with ease. With a simple toggle mechanism, you can instantly enable or disable caching in your browser, ensuring that you always load the most recent web content without manually clearing the cache. This tool streamlines the development workflow and aids in precise testing by eliminating cached data interference, making your debugging process faster and more reliable.

## Rankings

- #4,462 — Overall
- #4 — toggle
- #9 — cache
- #182 — disable

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `browserSettings`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Toggle Cache is praised for its simplicity and effectiveness in controlling Firefox's cache, with reports of faster, more stable page loads and reduced disk writes. Its downsides are uneven results across users and the lack of fine-grained disk-vs-memory cache options.

### Pros

- Simple, elegant, tiny, and just works.
- Works as intended and very effective at controlling Firefox cache.
- Reduces disk writes and can toggle off the cache, potentially improving SSD longevity.
- Improves page loading stability and reduces cache-related glitches/crashes.

### Cons

- Not effective for all users; some report no change.
- Lacks granular control: toggles both disk and memory caches (disk-only option not available).
- For some users the feature may be unnecessary or not meet their needs.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/togglecache)