This is exactly the behavior I was refering to. Thanks Stephen.
I think many CGI and other dynamic websites expect the older behaviour
and therefore the new cache may break things.
After reading the bugzilla comments, it would appear the developers are
thinking from scratch as to how the cache should behave. I'd vote for
the older behavior.
narbey
Stephen Moehle wrote:
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>
> What about pages like the following?
>
> http://www.slashdot.org/
> http://www.slashdot.org/
> http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
>
> With my caching preferences set to "Once per session", these pages never
> refresh unless I explicitly reload them. And this is not just browsing
> through session history, but loading the pages from bookmarks or by
> entering the URL directly into the Location bar. This behavior was
> introduced with the new cache. Previously, Mozilla would always seem to
> refresh the pages when they were viewed as does NN4.
>
> When I look at about:cache, the expiration time is always some time in
> the past, but this does not seem to be enough to cause Mozilla to
> refetch the page on its own.
>
> Stephen Moehle
