Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

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Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by rufuz » Fri May 09, 2008 2:36 am

I just installed my site on a vps...
Testing performances in xp I noticed the browser (firefox 2.x) was reloading each small image and the render of each page took about 10 secs. and navigation in backend was a pain

I checked cache settings in options, it was all right set. But FF was not caching.
Then I typed in adress bar:---> about:config

and I discovered cache was disabled!! :eek: I enabled it setting:

browser.cache.disk.enable default boolean true
browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl default boolean false
browser.cache.memory.enable default boolean true

default settings was altered, I don't know how!

now pages reload in less than 1 sec.

then I checked my laptop with Vista and FF 2.x
and guess what? same story!

I'am asking how it could happen, and if we have to tell to our user to check that setting!!! :'( :'(

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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by Geoff » Sun May 11, 2008 12:40 am

mod note: not Joomla! related, moved to the lounge

I can't replicate your errors on Xp or Vista.
Maybe file a bug report over at the Firefox bug tracker?
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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by rufuz » Sun May 11, 2008 9:54 am

Actually my best guess is the install of web developer or firebug... indeed they installed on both my systems... googling a bit I could see other people having the same "automated" change..

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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by rickei » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:25 pm

rufuz

Awesome. Thank you very much for this tip.
I have web developer installed, so that may be the culprit.
I'm back to my normal backend speeds now!

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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by rufuz » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:20 pm

Ok, then it seems we have to be aware of this detail.
Anyway, I recently installed WD in FF3 and had no such problem...

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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by caesartg » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:02 pm

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!

I've been pulling my hair out about this one for weeks now and it had been holding up areas of my site development. I considered whether it was Joomla, Mosets Tree (this is where the problem is most noticeable) or the host server and had an idea that the problem was only with Firefox. I replicated the problem on my home and office machines but noone else could and guess what, I have the very useful (but likely a culprit in this case) Web Developer extension on both machines. I'm on holiday just now and have been wasting it trying to fix this. I can sleep a bit sounder tonight.

Thanks for posting this!

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Re: Firefox caching disabled, why it happens?

Post by rufuz » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:09 am

nice to see you solved, too!

happy joomla!

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