Closed Bug 303247 Opened 19 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Gecko Core lacks options for cache (A request for better cache policy)

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cache, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: aros, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050728 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050728 Firefox/1.0+

I would like to save more traffic by forcing gecko not update its cache for
documents other than text/html and simple text. So I would like Mozilla Firefox
has an option like:
"Keep in sync only dynamic content".

After this option has been activated Gecko won't update CSS/Images/JS etc.
documents.

Speaking frankly I would like there be all options like in Opera 8.x. Don't beat
me for that.

Reproducible: Always
I'm not against making the caching policy more configurable for advanced users
or application developers, but I have to say that this is very far from the top
of my priority list, so I will most likely never work on this.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Target Milestone: --- → Future
I agree with this.  Images are rarely, if not ever, updated.  Whereas text/html is.

I thought of something similar the other day - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=393050


This would for sure speed up Firefox, and make many sysadmins happy because it will drastically reduces bandwidth.

I have noticed Opera 9.0 has a similar feature to what we are thinking. 
Assignee: darin → nobody
Target Milestone: Future → ---
addon material
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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