444424 - Firefox 3 is not caching websites properly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; FDM; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Every time I start Firefox, websites are loading again, although I stay logged in on every website. HTML/CSS, images... it's all loading again every time I open Firefox, thus making my browsing exprience slow.

"Always clear my private data when I close Firefox" checkbox is not checked. In about:config-> cache, 'browser.cache.disk.enable' is set to 'true' and 'browser.cache.memory.enable' is also set to 'true'.

I've posted this problem on one message board (in Serbian, so maybe you don't need a link?) and others have also complained about this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
The websites I already visited should load much faster from cache, but for some reason they don't, thus it even looks like IE7 is faster than FF3.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Has the preference browser.cache.check_doc_frequency the default value (3)?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

* 0 : Once per session
* 1 : Each time
* 2 : Never
* 3 : When appropriate/automatically

Comment 2

[Stefan]

Yes, the preference browser.cache.check_doc_frequency has value 3.

Comment 3

[Stefan]

I just ran a few tests. JavaScripts are also loading again every time I start Firefox.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Did you have a firefox crash between your tests  ?
What are the cache headers from the server for the used example ?
Please attach a http log.
Load a page on an example server, close Firefox, start Firefox with http logging, load the page again and after that post the http log here :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

Comment 5

[Stefan]

No, I didn't have a Firefox crash between my tests.

HTTP log is always larger than 512KB, so I can't attach it. Any tips for that? Some alternative link for upload, if it is allowed on Bugzilla?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Zip it ?

Comment 7

[Stefan]

Attachment: HTTP log

Here's my HTTP log. I've visited mail.google.com while logging, because Gmail is full of JavaScripts.

Comment 8

[Stefan]

It seems that everything is working as it should since 3.0.1 update.

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no patch in this bug= not fixed
I somehow missed your http log, sorry !

Comment 10

[Stefan]

Well, now everything is working as it should.

Nonetheless, what does the log say?

Comment 11

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i didn't looked at your report (needs time) because this works for me (also with 3.0) and it also works again for you with 3.01.
I would have looked at it if I somehow missed your comment...