Fixing a weird cache issue in Firefox
Thursday, May 7th 2009, 1:50am
Topics: Resources, Other
Tags: Cache, Firefox
Comments: 2
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Tinylink
About two weeks ago my Firefox started acting up and would not cache pages correctly. Actually, the content would cache, but any image on the actual page would load 1 by 1 and I can watch it go in sequence. This was extremely annoying, especially working in PhpMyAdmin, watching each image icon load 1 by 1 until the page was complete. This process would take nearly 5x what it usually did, so it got quite annoying real fast. I wasn't sure what caused this to happen as all my settings were normal and untouched.
So once I had enough of this, I checked Firefoxs core config (by typing about:config in the address bar). I then typed "cache" in the filter field and once it populated, I noticed the following fields were set to false (turned off).
Once I reset these to defaults (enabling it to true), my weird image cache problem vanished. I am not entirely sure if messing with these settings are ok, so if anyone has any input on the subject it would be appreciated. But besides that, everything seems to be running smoothly, and I thought it would be a good idea to let others know in case they run into it as well.
So once I had enough of this, I checked Firefoxs core config (by typing about:config in the address bar). I then typed "cache" in the filter field and once it populated, I noticed the following fields were set to false (turned off).
browser.cache.disk.enable browser.cache.memory.enable
Once I reset these to defaults (enabling it to true), my weird image cache problem vanished. I am not entirely sure if messing with these settings are ok, so if anyone has any input on the subject it would be appreciated. But besides that, everything seems to be running smoothly, and I thought it would be a good idea to let others know in case they run into it as well.
2 Comments
May 7th 2009, 16:15
milesj.me
May 7th 2009, 18:20