304953 - Firefox cache UI

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 188720

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Brodbelt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 Debian/1.7.10-1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050802 Debian/1.7.10-1

Firefox lacks UI to allow the user to change the value of
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency. For users coming from Netscape/Mozilla suite,
changing the integer value found under about:config is substantially harder than
the UI that was offered by Mozilla under Advanced/Cache, where it was
immediately obvious when the browser would use cached content.

A cache section under Tools/Options/Advanced that returned UI for the two
preferences:-

browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency

would be an appreciated enhancement. Users here who work on basic HTML pages get
confused by the caching - this preference might help to alleviate that.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

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

Comment 2

[Mike Brodbelt]

Is the wontfix status on bug 188720 an indication that FF policy is not to
expose these settings, or just an indication that there's no developer time
available to do so? It's quite frustrating to see stuff assigned WONTFIX without
any explanation of what exactly that means, or the reasoning behind it.

Comment 3

[u63580]

Bug 188720, comment #3:

"The prefs have been reworked and this is not part of the plan. "

WONTFIX means that the dev team have decided against a change - thinks with no
time available are supposed to be left open, in case any one every wants to take
the bug (at least that is the system as I understand it).

Comment 4

[Mike Brodbelt]

"The prefs have been reworked and this is not part of the plan."

That comment was two and a half years ago, and no rationale was given for it
then. Is there nowhere for users to comment on this sort of thing, and no
opportunity to  have any input into this sort of decision. As someone
responsible for deploying Mozilla products across an organisation, I am often
frustrated by the seemingly arbitrary and opaque nature of the decision making
processes.

Comment 5

[u63580]

(In reply to comment #4)
> 
> That comment was two and a half years ago, and no rationale was given for it
> then. Is there nowhere for users to comment on this sort of thing, and no
> opportunity to  have any input into this sort of decision. As someone
> responsible for deploying Mozilla products across an organisation, I am often
> frustrated by the seemingly arbitrary and opaque nature of the decision making
> processes.

I can only suggest one of the links from http://www.mozilla.org/developer/