502195 - Recurring images on page requested multiple times after Ctrl-F5 refresh

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 497665

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FirePHP/0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) FirePHP/0.3

This issue appeared in Firefox 3.5.

A page containing n instances of an image will make n requests for that image to the server following a Ctrl-F5 refresh. Prior behaviour required only one request.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a test page containing a large number of img tags all pointing to the same image.
2. Refresh the page with Ctrl-F5.
Actual Results:  
The images load sequentially as each is requested from the server regardless of the fact that it is the same image.

Expected Results:  
One request is made to the server after which all images appear at once.

I have Firebug 1.4.0b3 installed. The issue occurred with Firebug enabled and disabled for the page. The test page was server from an Apache webserver.