How do I make Firefox load pages from cache?

[Howard]

Seems like every time I press Back, it re-downloads the page. Opera and IE load previously-visited pages instantly.

The disk cache size is 50MB.

 

[bersl2]

Did you change anything?

Goto about:config, look for anything with "cache" in it. Make sure disk and memory are on, and that it's using cache. You might want to enable SSL encryption of the cache, too.

 

[Howard]

Nope, didn't change anything. I turned on browser_disk_cache_ssl on your recommendation. I wonder if that'll do anything.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Howard
Seems like every time I press Back, it re-downloads the page. Opera and IE load previously-visited pages instantly.
The disk cache size is 50MB.

Yes, it's a bug in Firefox, it will always hit the network when clicking "back". Opera by default always hits the cache.

 

[Allio]

It doesn't reload it every time, it just has a slight delay (maybe half a second?) before loading it from cache. If you had a slower internet connection you'd realise that 😛 Watch, there's absolutely no net traffic.

Of course, this isn't a solution - all I can tell you is that the problem isn't on your end.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Allio
It doesn't reload it every time, it just has a slight delay (maybe half a second?) before loading it from cache. If you had a slower internet connection you'd realise that 😛 Watch, there's absolutely no net traffic.

Of course, this isn't a solution - all I can tell you is that the problem isn't on your end.

500ms to load a page that isn't even 1MB?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Allio
It doesn't reload it every time, it just has a slight delay (maybe half a second?) before loading it from cache. If you had a slower internet connection you'd realise that 😛 Watch, there's absolutely no net traffic.

Of course, this isn't a solution - all I can tell you is that the problem isn't on your end.

I didn't say that it reloaded it, only that it "hit" the network. It checks to see if the page has changed on the internet. But it does it every time - unlike Opera. It also causes a significant lag (compared to Opera), when hitting "back", even if the data is in cache.

Btw, if you're saying that you've used an ethernet sniffer to determine that absolutely zero net traffic is sent out ... then that's even more broken than I had imagined. I was under the impression that it send a "HEAD" command to the HTTP server and waited for the response, or something like that. It wouldn't download the whole page again, certainly, but there is a minimal amount of net traffic. The fact that it does it at all is still mostly-broken though.

 

[CTho9305]

Even if it does use the cache, it still reparses and renders everything. IE and Opera cache the "DOM Tree" (result of parsing), which makes redisplaying the page a lot faster. People are working on implementing that in Mozilla as well.

 

[Alex]

50 mb is pretty small for a cache IMO

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: franguinho
50 mb is pretty small for a cache IMO

What would you put in there?