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Posted by Neredbojias on 04/26/06 01:54
To further the education of mankind, "frederick"
<frederick@southernskies.co.uk> vouchsafed:
> 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?
Yuk! I wanted something where I really didn't have to think... :)
> 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.
Oh, okay <grump,grumble,whine />. I guess I'll hafta go and do it.
(Seriously, thanks, and see my reply to Alan.)
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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.
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