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Posted by frederick on 04/25/06 22:40
Neredbojias wrote:
> To further the education of mankind, Michael Winter
> <m.winter@blueyonder.co.uk> vouchsafed:
> > Fx takes a different approach, and always
> > revalidates whenever the lifetime is unknown (though there an advanced
> > property, browser.cache.check_doc_frequency, that will that).
>
> I'm only casually familiar with caching mechanisms in general but this
> statement surprised me because I've been having a bit of trouble with
> Firefox and caching. Whenever I change/update a page on my site and then
> open it with FF, I always seem to get the old version. None of my pages
> have any explicitly-stated caching directives, meta or otherwise. Sure, I
> can manually reload the page and _then_ get the new version, but this
> shouldn't be necessary. I've checked in Firefox's "tools" menu and didn't
> see anything that might address the issue.
Have you explored the myriad of different options available by typing
in "about:config" in the address bar?
Note that knowing what all the bells and whistles do requires a bit of
Googling, and some options are only detailed after they've been
explicity set by the user.
--
AGw.
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