Permanently Disabling Safari's Cache

[Diomedes]

I am getting sick and tired of the beach ball that appears in Safari - as I understand it, it is because of Safari's cache. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) If so, is there a way to permanently disable the cache?

[solaris]

Dont know if its an easy setting for this, but one way might be to set Read-only user rights to the Camino/Cache folder.

[iGary]

One of the most annoying aspects of Safari.

Storing cache in RAM.

ALT/OPTION CMD E

Learn it love it.

[Hemingray]

One of the most annoying aspects of Safari.

Storing cache in RAM.

ALT/OPTION CMD E

Learn it love it.

That's handy, but not really a permanent solution. The best way I've found is to do the following:
1) Enable the Safari Debug menu (via PithHelmet or equivalent haxie)
2) Uncheck "Use Back/Forward Cache"
3) Open "Show Caches Window" and check the "Disable WebCore Caches"

I'm not sure if that'll permanently stop Safari in its tracks from caching ANYTHING though.

[FattyMembrane]

safari's cache is stored in ~/Library/Caches/Safari

if you delete this folder and then type

touch ~/Library/Caches/Safari

an empty file will be created where safari's cache should go and safari will no longer keep disk cache. to re-enable disk cache, just delete the file

edit: note that this is for disk cache only

[Sweetfeld28]

Or...

you could just use this simple program to do that, and some other things to enhance Safari.

Safari Enhancer 2.5.2 (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17776) this one is for 10.3, there is another one for 10.2 on VersionTracker.

[iGary]

Cool, all good suggestions.

Just wish Apple would fix it, though.