299005 - Setting cache to 0MB does not disable cache (Deer Park alpha 1)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Bart Friederichs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

When setting the cache to use to 0MB, it still does some caching, and there is
no other way to disable the cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set cache to 0MB
2. Open a page with a script
3. Change the script
4. Reload



Actual Results:  
The old script (cached) is run 

Expected Results:  
The new script runs

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This is only the disk cache right? There is also a memory cache in Firefox.

Comment 2

[Bart Friederichs]

Yes, just the disk cache. But I cannot find anywhere a way to disable memory cache.

Comment 3

[J.P.Klippel]

IMHO under about:config the option browser.cache.memory.enable should do disable
memory caching if set to false.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

This is as designed (memory cache has no visible UI anymore, but about:config
still works). The setting in the options is for the disk cache only.