Cleaning the cache

How do I clean my cache files? is that something we do as a rutine?
Is the program MacKeeper safe to clean the cache files?
Am I suppost to keep my firewall enable? this is my first Mac and as happy as I am I would like to keep it in great shape!! Thank you so much

Use your machine normally.
From the X Lab's Maintaining Mac OS X
System and User cache cleaning are troubleshooting steps, not part of regular maintenance.
Caches are used to improve the performance of both the operating system and applications. Removing System and User cache files for other than troubleshooting purposes defeats the purpose of cache files, which will be rebuilt automatically at your next restart or login, adding time to those processes.
Potential side effects of System-level cache cleaning are discussed in our "Side effects of System cache cleaning" FAQ.
Accordingly, cache cleaning can be an important troubleshooting step, such as when used in our"Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption" FAQ, but it is not regular maintenance.

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Hi
I have been getting to grips with the sun update software over the last 2 days.
In about a years time I see that the cache of downloaded patches will have a great deal of obsolete downloads.
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Cookies (Tracking cooking found) *
I do not have History, No Bookmark (Testing) **
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InstallTime20120614114901
C:\Documents and Settings\Camelia Colin\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tj6un7g4.default
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chromeappsstore.sqlite
compatibility.ini
content-prefs.sqlite
cookies.sqlite -GARBAGE*-
downloads.sqlite
extensions.ini
extensions.sqlite
formhistory.sqlite
key3.db
localstore.rdf
mimeTypes.rdf
parent.lock
permissions.sqlite
places.sqlite -GARBAGE**-
pluginreg.dat
prefs.js
search.json
search.sqlite
secmod.db
sessionstore.bak
sessionstore.js
signons.sqlite
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bookmarks-2012-06-26.json -GARBAGE ***-
bookmarks-2012-06-27.json -GARBAGE ***-
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urlclassifier.pset
urlclassifier3.sqlite
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_CACHE_001_
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_CACHE_MAP_
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C:\Documents and Settings\Camelia Colin\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tj6un7g4.default\OfflineCache
index.sqlite
C:\Documents and Settings\Camelia Colin\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tj6un7g4.default\startupCache
startupCache.4.little
Thank you very much

The cache is in this location and all its sub-folders.
*C:\Documents and Settings\Camelia Colin\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\tj6un7g4.default\Cache
The urlclassifier3.sqlite file stores the encrypted contents of the phishing protection database and it is best to leave this file to avoid Firefox having to rebuild it.<br />
You can remove the file if it really gets to large (around 50 MB is not unusual).
The bookmarkbackups folder stores the daily created JSON backups with a maximum of 10.<br />
You can set that maximum in Firefox via the browser.bookmarks.max_backups pref on the about:config page.
It is best to leave the other files in the Firefox Profile Folder (Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\) intact, and use Clear Recent History if you want to remove data, to avoid database corruption.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History

Clean system cache and user icon

I am the admin user on my computer and everytime I clean the system cache it reverts the icon of my user to the icon of the system administrator as seen in this picture: http://image.versiontracker.com/scrnsht/48491/155862/190rootUser.png This is just a picture I found to show what the icon looks like it is not my computer as I am the only user on it.
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-mj
[email protected]

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