228504 - Mozilla Firebird does not load pages from cache - (i.e. caching is broken)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031214 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031214 Firebird/0.7+

If you visit a web site once then immediately visit that website again, either
by dragging the link back onto the page, Clicking the "Go" toolbar button or
pressing <ENTER> on the address bar, Mozilla downloads the page again (as if a
refresh was requested) - even though it should have loaded the page from cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit any web site.
2. Visit that site again either by dragging the link from the address bar back
onto the page (or onto the tab bar), Clicking the "Go" toolbar button or
pressing <ENTER> on the address bar.
3. Notice that Mozilla goes out and retrieves the page anew - completely
ignoring its cache!  This is not good.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla Firebird goes out and downloads the page again.  It completely ignores
its cache.  Mozilla is obviously writing to cache, as I confirm 15 MB of
recently written data; however, it obviously is not reading from it.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla Firebird should not be retrieving content anew every time.  It should
check it's cache first.  The only time Mozilla Firebird should be going out to
retrieve content anew is when either it does not exist in cache or a user hits
the refresh button.

Compare with Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Yes, I know MS IE has buggy cache
handling, but at least it checks it's cache in this case.

Comment 1

[IU]

By the way, all 0.7+ builds and possibly all 0.6+ builds of Mozilla Firebird
have this bug.

Comment 2

[Daniel B.]

> Mozilla Firebird should not be retrieving content anew every time.  It should
> check it's [sic] cache first.  

That depends on the cache-control and expiration headers and preferences, 
doesn't it?

Daniel

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.