On Saturday 24 September 2011 16:11:26 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Are you sure /var/cache went smaller directly after cleaning browser > caches? Maybe you did something else... No. In every case I looked immediately after I had cleared the browser cache, and the size of /var/cache went down all three times. It did not go down when I cleared the cache in Opera, which is my fourth browser and which I very rarely use. Lisi