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I am a blogger (See link to my blog), and a blog browser. (See link to my blog) I have enabled caching on my browser because I like not having to download everything every time. Unfortunately, for constantly changing websites such as this one, blogs, and news sites, it can be a pain to have to reload
even after typing the name. I propose an option that allows you to set certain domains that will not get cached, and will be downloaded each time.
Firefox tweaking for page loading
http://www.mozilla..../tips#oth_rendering
Read from this point down to the bottom. [Size_Mick, Apr 26 2005]
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I see that a few people have clicked the link, but no one has annotated. |
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And you felt that needed an annotation? |
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Well, I wanted my idea to have attention. I don't like when they silently slip off the list, never noticed by anyone. |
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would also be handy for when you're looking at porn or something. no need to clear the whole cache or clear history, just flip the "do not cache" switch and surf away. it's like stealth mode. surely this has been baked as a firefox extension or something... |
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Hmm, that's not the use I had in mind. |
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This wouldn't be a switch, but a list of websites that would be refreshed automatically rather than being pulled from the cache. |
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I believe that the author of the page can set a META tag
to stop (complying) browsers keeping a cached copy
(setting the cache-expiry-time to zero, or something). |
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Or perhaps you have the same problem I do - the caching
is not being done by your browser, but by a proxy server. |
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If you have broadband and a decent amount of RAM in your PC, then you can set Mozilla Firefox to use only memory caching, and to always reload every page every time. For speed, just enable http pipelining (see link). Mine is currently set so that nothing except for cookies and downloaded files ever makes it to my actual hard drive. But it still rips through pages very quickly. |
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If you have only a little RAM and dialup, then I suggest you head over to the firefox discussion forums and ask around about how one could make such an extension, since I KNOW this can be done (and possibly already has been). |
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This is already baked, you can control it yourself from your webpage. It is a "header" parameter that is transmitted in HTTP, but by putting a META tag in the <HEAD> section of your web page, you can cause the web server to transmit it. |
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The exact tag you need is thus:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE"> |
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I think the author want to be able to do
this client-side. If it's a proxy doing the
caching rather than their browser then I
can't see that there's much than can be
done from the client, though. |
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I believe the browser is supposed to obey the Cache-control header too, so this would solve both ends of the equation. It seems to me to be much easier to solve this at the website end, since the web master knows whether their content is rapidly changing or not. They can even control it on a page-by-page basis. |
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...what krelnick said, plus that when controlled on the server-side, the site owner can then better control bandwidth by encouraging cacheing of static content, while non-cacheing dynamic conten. |
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I've enabled pipelining. I only want the caching of for some pages, though. |
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