on 2/27/01 9:56 AM, Greg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> Over the years I have come to the conclusion that Netscape (most if not
> all versions) is faster if you turn the disk cache OFF by reducing its
> size to 0. I have measured "before and after" on many occasions and the
> cache always slows it down. The only way I can see that the Netscape
> disk cache might be an advantage would be if you had a slow modem and
> spent most of your browsing going to the same websites. But my
> experience doesn't even show an improvement in that scenario.
>
> My thinking is this... with the cache enabled, the computer has to look
> on the disk for every image or other "cacheable" item that comes in.
> This takes time. Also, the computer has to write a copy, to the cache
> file, of every cacheable item that comes in, even though much of it will
> never be used again ( I'm not going to that website again or will have
> changed by the next time I go there). This takes time. Another side
> benefit of having NO browser disk cache is that you don't have to listen
> to the disk clicking and clunking so busily. Netscape keeps a lot of
> stuff in RAM cache (very fast) such that using the Back or Forward
> button is not enhanced using the disk cache.
>
> I am curious to know of other peoples experience and opinion on this
> subject. Hope I am not too far off topic!
> Greg
>
>
Tell me, in your experience, does this eliminate that extremely irritating
habit of NS to d/l & render the page and then when done rendering, BLANK THE
SCREEN AND RERENDER THE ENTIRE PAGE AT THE SAME GLACIAL PACE??? (As you can
tell, it get a bit worked up by this behavior.)
- Eric.
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