Does your Firefox sometimes show you old versions of a page?

[Berryracer]

I am sick and tired of this, I hate Google Chrome's bookmarks manager so I cannot switch to it, it won't allow me to scroll my bookmarks with my mouse wheel

The problem with Firefox is, sometimes if I am looking at a page, and think that it is the latest version, I am surprised that when I do a CTRL+F5, I see some new stuff added, happens a lot on www.majorgeeks.com or http://www.station-drivers.com/page/intel chipset.htm

Today I accessed Station Drivers, and when I hit CTRL + F5 I saw a new Intel Rapid Storage Driver

This baffels me because I have done the tweak in Firefox to always get the latest content from a webpage upon every visit

about:config
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency
value = 1

I am surprised noone complains about this, or people probably just browse not even knowing they might be looking at old content on a page

How do you guys deal with this or someone please help me solve this before I bit the bullet and accept that Chrome can't scroll through my bookmarks using the Mouse wheel

 

[ninaholic37]

From what I can tell, you shouldn't need to change the "check_doc_frequency" value because it already checks to see if the page is out of date (by default). Mine was already set to 3:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

I don't think I've ever seen the problem you mentioned in Firefox, except once I noticed an image didn't change after I uploaded a new version of it (I uploaded a giant cookie to a post on a forum, then updated it with a word on it, and the word on the image never show up for a few days in Firefox, even after I refreshed the page).

The only browser I remember where it would sometimes load a "cached/saved" webpage (when there was a more recent one) is Netscape Navigator, I think. I have never tried going to those two links you provided before though... maybe the page modified date in them hasn't been updated somehow, or there's a bug and it can't read it at all? Anyone know how it actually checks to see if a page has been updated?

 

[Berryracer]

From what I can tell, you shouldn't need to change the "check_doc_frequency" value because it already checks to see if the page is out of date (by default). Mine was already set to 3:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

I don't think I've ever seen the problem you mentioned in Firefox, except once I noticed an image didn't change after I uploaded a new version of it (I uploaded a giant cookie to a post on a forum, then updated it with a word on it, and the word on the image never show up for a few days in Firefox, even after I refreshed the page).

The only browser I remember where it would sometimes load a "cached/saved" webpage (when there was a more recent one) is Netscape Navigator, I think. I have never tried going to those two links you provided before though... maybe the page modified date in them hasn't been updated somehow, or there's a bug and it can't read it at all? Anyone know how it actually checks to see if a page has been updated?

no I've always had this issue man...with that value set to 1, it didn't happen for a while, or so I thought....until today I noticed it happen again on the Station Drivers site

that never happens with Chrome

im gonna switch to CHrome as I cant live with this paranoia that Im not looking at the latest version of a webpage and have to hit F5 + CTRL on every page I visit

Firefox sucks except for its addons