1349586 - "Request desktop site" should clear the cache

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dennis Schubert [:denschub]]

When enabling "Request desktop site", there is a chance that we reload assets or even the whole HTML out of the browser cache. Since sites sometimes change HTML sources based on whether it's a mobile device or not, we maybe should purge the cache when loading a site with "Request desktop site" turned on.

Comment 1

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

I think we already do this (https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/05bfa2831c0ba4a26fa72328ffe6a99aba9c356a/mobile/android/chrome/content/browser.js#3703), so is this somehow not working properly?

Comment 2

[Dennis Schubert [:denschub]]

Hm, surprising. I am currently investigating a webcompat issue at https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/3669 and one of the issues looked to me like Fenenc just loads the site out of the cache. And indeed, if you access the site mentioned in the issue (added as URL to this bug), it does not look like there is a reload when setting/unsetting the checkbox.

(However, to be fair, there is a lot of stuff going on there and I am not yet sure where the exact issue is. Maybe this is actually a website issue.)

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 4

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