544495 - browser.cache.check_doc_frequency 4: min (once per session, page is out of date)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: All Versions

browser.cache.check_doc_frequency: there should be a option value 4 which means, that to check for a new version of a page once per session or when the page is out of date, which ever comes first.

browser.cache.check_doc_frequency set to 3 is generally a good choice, but pages which contains no meta expires value may stay much too long in the cache. browser.cache.check_doc_frequency set to 1 is no good alternative because pages which contains a meta expires value may stay much too long in the cache.

So there is an need to combine both options. Do do so as described in the first sentence is my feature proposal.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frank]

What must I do to ensure that the proposal will be implemented?

I think it is very easy to implement the proposal. The benefits far outweigh the effort.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

That should be option 0, although you might have trouble when the session is very long (if the browser never closes).

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency