290746 - Include visual preferences for browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 188720

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050417 Firefox/1.0+

A visual preference for the browser.cache.check_doc_frequency setting would be
very useful in Firefox. I believe it would also match Internet Explorer if we
did this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Edit > Preferences
2. Privacy > Cache
3. Look for a way to change how often a page is checked for updates.

Actual Results:

No such way was found.

Expected Results:

Should have found a way to change this preference easily.

A good way to do this in my opinion would be with a drop-down list. Even finding
the preference in about:config isn't that useful, because you then need to find
a way to convert an integer into an expected behaviour. It's not obvious what
numbers mean what frequency.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188720 ***

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