276656 - Disk cache size conversion (MB to KiB) is borked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106618

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Steve Chapel]

Reproducability: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Preferences, set Disk Cache to 1 MB.
2. Go to about:config and type "cache" for the filter.
3. Go to about:cache

Actual Results:
In step 2, browser.cache.disk.capacity is shown as 1024. In step 3, Maximum
storage size is shown as 1024 KiB.

Expected Results:
In step 2, browser.cache.disk.capacity is shown as 1000. In step 3, Maximum
storage size is shown as 1000 KB.

An alternative (and probably easier and safer) way to solve this is to change
"MB" to "MiB" in the cache preference dialog. That way, setting the disk cache
to 1 MiB would display as 1024 KiB in about:cache.

Comment 1

[Steve Chapel]

Attachment: Patch to display MiB instead of MB in pref panel

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Comment on attachment 170781 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to display MiB instead of MB in pref panel

No, I believe the decision was made to suppress MiB and KiB and instead use the
more familiar MB and KB in the user interface for mozilla products. 
(about:cache is a special exception since it is a "geek feature" not intended
for use by normal users.  Afterall, there is no way to access about:cache from
the UI.)

If anything at all is to be done about this bug (and I don't see there being
much urgency here), I think you could maybe argue that the UI should treat the
input in megabytes instead of mebibytes, but that would be inconsistent with
page-info and other parts of the product.

In short, I think it might be better for users if we kept with the more
familiar interpretation of MB and KB.

Comment 3

[Alexey Chernyak]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106618 ***