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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 04/25/06 23:09
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Neredbojias wrote:
> 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.
>
> Any thoughts?
It worries me that so many useful settings that are present in the UI
of Mozilla/Seamonkey, have been ripped out of Ff. Short of finding an
extension which does what you want, one needs to resort to
manipulating about:config, if you can work out what the values mean.
If you try about:config, I predict you will find that
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency is set to 3, which apparently means
"check when the page is out of date". A value of 1 here would mean
"Check every time", which might be what you want.
Other values which can be discerned in Seamonkey seem to be 2 meaning
"never" and 0 meaning "once per session". AFAICT and YMMV.
Alternatively, you can install Pederick's web developer, and use it to
disable the cache while you are doing web development.
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