Firefox 3 is not caching content
That what happened to me after the upgrade from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. For some strange reason, cache was totally disable. To solve this problem you need to change 2 of your Firefox configuration settings:
1st Step
Open a new tab an type about:config
2sd Step
On the search bar that appears type browser.cache
3rd Step
Set the following atributes to true:
browser.cache.disk.enable and browser.cache.memory.enable
In my case, they were both set to false so in each browser request all the content was being downloaded… a little annoying.
i hope this helps
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The cache is listed as one possible cause of 100% CPU usage. Disabling these properties is a workaround for that.
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=ro&forumId=1&comments_parentId=71110
I didn’t know that ff3 was having CPU usage problems.
Maybe i’ll disable the memory cache and just use the disk cache. Because it’s very annoying to get all the content off the webpage in each request.
This did help, I had the same problem. Thanks!
Glad i could help JB
Had the same problem, googled it got you, thanks!
No Problem Phil
There is another parameter in there that allows or block SSL sites from being cached to disk. If FALSE (default) then it seems that memory fills up and future access to SSL sites will not be cached. Setting this to TRUE may be a security issue - but it fixed it for me.
I LOVE you! Thanks. I don’t know why it was doing this but all of a sudden my settings changed and nothing was caching. Erg!
Glad i could Help Cole. The actually same thing happened to me.
Somebody know why is this happening. It was my problem too…
I really don’t know the cause. I just installed firefox and it didn’t cached the content.
But since i corrected the problem it never happened again
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