How do I get firefox to startup and load tabs without re-downloading them from the internet?
Does Firefox do some kind of check to see if the website might be out of date? I don't care because web pages lie, nothing important has happened in the 1 to 5 minutes since I closed the browser.
The exact same thing happens when I hit the back button, instead of going back to a cached copy the whole web page gets reloaded, even if I only accidentally clicked a link 5 seconds ago. This is really rubbish behavior, I want the browser to go back to the page I was looking at, I do not want the browser to spend another 30 seconds downloading the whole $£%^"£$%^£ing page again.
This behavior makes Firefox suck bad. What is the solution?
Undo close tab often works superfast when Firefox doesn't decide to reload to page, this needs to be extended to the above mentioned actions, I have 16gb ram and several TB of HDD space available to make this work.
Chosen solution
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency = 2
Thanks, it does help the pages load quicker especially when hitting the back button. ('page is out of date' setting is horribly abused by most websites in order to show new adverts.)
Unfortunately Ctrl+shift+Q is completely useless because it is per tab and it has to be started again when the browser is opened. I only saw Green and white circles even with browser.cache.check_doc_frequency set to 2 (cache only).
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You can opt to work completely offline.You may want to toggle that on and off as required. Use keyboard shortcut
Alt + F, K
Note Firefox does try to cache pages and intelligently use that so that it only loads what is needed. By The Way if you use the network console you can see what parts are loaded from the net and what are loaded from the cache.
- Use Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Q
Green Circles 200 - loaded from the web
Orange Triangles 304 Loaded from Cache - See https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Network_Monitor#Headers#Network_request_list
You may also tweak the settings in about:config See
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency#Possible_values_and_their_effects
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
Type in to the addressbar about:config accept any warning. Search for browser.cache.check_doc_frequency for instance key into the filter c_fr highlight and right click, then use Modify. That however is probably usually used by those wishing to increase the frequency of reloads.
As for the original startup of Firefox by default it only loads the visible tabs not the other tabs you may have open.
Chosen Solution
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency = 2
Thanks, it does help the pages load quicker especially when hitting the back button. ('page is out of date' setting is horribly abused by most websites in order to show new adverts.)
Unfortunately Ctrl+shift+Q is completely useless because it is per tab and it has to be started again when the browser is opened. I only saw Green and white circles even with browser.cache.check_doc_frequency set to 2 (cache only).
Sorry I did not explain that very well. Using the consoles is not intended to be a solution only a method of you seeing what happens. If you load a particular page by using Ctrl+F5 while the console is open you will see all the GETs showing a green circle and code 200. If instead you only click the reload arrow at the end of the addressbar you will see the orange triangles where it is using what it already has. If you use the back button with the console open the white or grey hollow circles are cached content. Not content that is downloaded fresh.
If once you have used the back arrow, and still have the console open hit the reload arrow or Ctrl + F5 and you will see the colour comeback as it reloads.
Hi, actually the console doesn't seem to display anything much when going backwards or forwards, it jumps to the page using the cache but the data area is empty, it doesn't display 304/green triangles but it is obvious from the speed that a fully cached page is being displayed, changing browser.cache.check_doc_frequency made a big difference, thanks.
I am having difficulty with the tabs reloading too but I think my situation is different. It used to be that when my tabs reloaded they reloaded from the cache so I saw exactly what was there from before. Now when the tabs load (news, weather, etc.) they reload so it is current. How do I stop this and get them to reload exactly what was there before?