[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Kevin Loch]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 @ 00:17 -0400, Kevin Loch said:
> 
> 
> That seems like an awful waste of bandwidth.
> 

The disk cache is redundant since the memory cache is
still in use.  On a fast internet connection and a machine
without extra fast SCSI disk, downloading from the net
is noticably faster than fetching from disk.
Especially with large caches containing thousands
of files.

I also believe in the "everything is purged
when I exit".  That is why I set cookies
to expire at end of session too.

>>and ALWAYS disable open links in background.  That is likely the
>>problem you are having.
> 
> 
> I don't see any reason why it would use more memory.
> 
Downloading all that content in the background is certainly
going to consume resources.  Bandwidth, memory, disk IO (if
disk caching is enabled).

> It is a UI issue: it means that opening a new tab leaves you in your
> current tab.
> 

No, even within a single tab accessing lots of large images will
grow memory usage dramatically.  This is another reason
to disable background fetching.