Caching web pages

[stefcep2]

I sometime use Ibrowse to browse the net.  Ilike the fact that you can set the size of the cache it uses to store web pages and images, so that if you go back to previous page it gets it from the cache on my hard drive rather than downloading from the original server.  Does anyone know if i can get Firefox 2 or Opera to do the same on Win XP?

[meega]

Default Firefox cache is about 75MB I believe, you can set more if you really really want to.

Ed: and Opera has default 20MB, and various presets up to 400MB.

[weirdami]

good luck getting any web page nowadays to load from the cache.

[meega]

It happens when I press "Back" ...

And Opera's default action on starting is to load the last-viewed page from the cache ...

[stefcep2]

meega wrote:
It happens when I press "Back" ...

No neither firefox nor opera do it it: i just pushed the go back button to go to the previous amiga.org page and they both fetched it from the net.  I increased the disk cache as above, but they don't seem to make any difference..

And Opera's default action on starting is to load the last-viewed page from the cache ...

Yep and thats the only one it gets from the cache..

What a colossal waste of bandwith this must be world-wide..

[meega]

Try clearing the caches, and see what happens.

You don't think A.org's logo gets sent to you every time you open/refresh a page, do you?