283774 - webpage dosen't update until refresh is pressed (cache problem)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikul Makim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

When you go http://news.yahoo.com then visit it after a couple of hours the
browser dosen't show the updated webpage.  When you press refresh the new
stories are displayed.  This means that upon return to the site the browser
shows the webpage in the cache instead of retreiving the new updated version.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://news.yahoo.com
2. Exit and revisit the page after some time
3. Press refresh to display the updated page

Actual Results:  
The current news stories get displayed instead of the old ones in the browser cache.

Expected Results:  
It should have gotten the most current page instead of one from the cache

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What are your cache settings in preferences?

Comment 2

[Mikul Makim]

The cache setting was set to "Never" .  May be that was the problem

Comment 3

[Zook Valem]

Yes!!  With the "Never" setting enabled, the browser only load the webpage once
if there is no cache of that webpage.  Otherwise, it won't update the cache if
the same webpage is already there regardless of how old the webpage is.

Try changing the setting to "When the page is out of date" as it would be more
of a convient for you if wish.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  This is invalid -- everything is working as designed given the user
preference settings.