You can also control cookies from the Advanced category in the Preferences dialog box. Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred from a web server to your browser. Cookies contain information about your computer or connection and are used by the server for various reasons. The cache is an area in your computer memory and a folder on your hard drive where web file elements, such as graphics and actual web pages, are stored. When you open a page you have visited before, Navigator opens it from the cache to improve performance.
Proxies are a combination of hardware and software used to connect office networks to the Internet.
They provide additional security and an element of control over workstation access to the Internet. The disk space category applies to the messaging components in Communicator. Open the Preferences dialog box. Select Advanced in the Category list box to display the advanced Navigator options. Select the desired option.