I know, I know, Firefox is great, it’s perfect…well…almost…
You see, there’s one thing about the browser that irks/bugs/whateva… It’s cache. I think I should explain what a cache is first. It’s a place where browser’s can store temporary data. Period. It can be on your memory, your hard disk or both!
Anyway, Firefox may have a good cache, but if you want pages to always be loaded from the cache, you’ll have to tweak your way around.
- Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter.
- Read the warning. Twice if necessary, I won’t repeat it here.
- In the Filter text box, type cache.
- The first one that shows up should be browser.cache.check_doc_frequency. Make sure that the value is set to ‘2′.
This will ensure that Firefox will get the pages from the disk cache. You need to make sure that browser.cache.disk.enable is set to ‘True’ and that browser.cache.disk.capacity has a nice big value of 50000 (default).
Setting it to 3, which is the default value, checks each time the page becomes outdated…which is pretty often for major websites. 0 checks each time you start Firefox. 1 checks each time the page is loaded.
Tell me if that doesn’t work. Even I’m experimenting…
December 21, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Changing that value to 2 ISN’T a very good idea, because then, for most sites, you’ll have to hit the reload button manually for most sites. And God have mercy on you if it is some site using inline frames (like Access’), because then unless you open up the frame individually and reload it, it won’t show new stuff. That’s what methinks will happen for something permanently loading from cache, do tell me if I’m wrong…