How do i reduce the amount of storage that is taken up by the "other" category?

so the category the is yellow and is labelled as other, is taking up a lot of my data, i read online that it helps to delete all the browse history etc. which i did but it did virtually nothing. It is taking up 2.70gb and i dont have enough room to download all the music that i have seletcted which is 493 song which is said to be 3.07gb, my phone has a capacity of "16gb" which is really 13.50gb and i just want to get rid of the "other" because it is silliness.

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There are also a couple of other locations where Firefox stores data, check the size of the following folders as well.
Firefox also stores user data such as bookmarks and passwords in the [[profiles|profile folder]]. It should be inside this folder C:\Users\''username''\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
Firefox stores temporary files in the cache. To find the location of the cache, type '''about:cache''' into the location bar. It should be inside this folder C:\Users\''username''\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\
The last 2 folders are normally hidden, you may need to set Vista to [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial130.html show hidden files and folders].

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