202621 - pages are always out of date / does not use cache

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 193454

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[Matt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

There really isn't a lot to say here. Mozilla never ever ever seems to load a
page from cache, even when you click the back button. I've got a max browser
cache size of 5000 KB, and I've checked to load a new copy "when the page is out
of date". This is horribly annoying in a lot of circumstances, but especially
when it happens on pages that result from a form submission. I ALWAYS get "the
page you are trying to view was created..." messages, and I have to wait for the
server to reprocess the job before I can view the page again. This doesn't seem
to be related to a no-cache tag or anything; it literally happens on every site
(including Bugzilla!).

I really hope to not waste anyone's time with this, but I don't do anything
"funky" with my browser settings or with any part of Windows. I just don't know
why this doesn't work. I checked my profile's "cache" folder, and there are
definitely items in there.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page.
2. Click a link.
3. Click the back button, and watch a flurry of activity in the status bar.



Expected Results:  
Load the page from cache!

Comment 1

[Warner Young]

Can this be a dupe of bug 193454?

Comment 2

[Matt]

Yep, it's a dup! I believe the circumstances are exactly like the one you
suggested. Since I don't know what I'm doing on here, I'll leave it to you to
actually mark it as such. Further comment to be posted on that bug.

Comment 3

[Warner Young]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 193454 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

VERIFIED/dupe:
If you find that clearing the cache w/ the prefs button doesn't work, renaming
the cache dir should solve the problem.