237612 - Add UI to force the browser to reload the pages with every click.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Eric Raasch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When using Apple Computers PowerSchool database, we need to be able to set the
browser to never cache pages.  This option does not exist in Firefox.  We need
it badly.  Help

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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The only way around this is to use Mozilla or keep clicking re-load.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

in about:config set browser.cache.check_doc_frequency to 1 (see
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/netprefs.html)

Its not something that users will typically need.  If a webserver needs this,
then it should be sending very short expiration headers to the client so the
default setting (based on the expiration date sent by the server) works fine. 
This pref just exists to allow forcing this in situations where for whatever
reason we don't want to ever use cache.

There won't be UI for this in Firefox, but the pref will always be available.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change