On 7/11/17, Ed Mullen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/10/17 at 4:32 PM, Lee's prodigious digits fired off with great aplomb: >> On 7/10/17, meagain wrote: >>> On 6/21/2017 8:59 PM, Ed Mullen wrote: >>>> >>>> If you have a broadband connection there is little benefit to using a >>>> browser cache. Disable it. >>> >>> Interesting and clearly true, but I had never heard that recommendation >>> previously. >> >> Not clearly true. >> >> try this: >> >> Open SeaMonkey & click on tools / web development / toggle tools >> select the network tab + the All tab below that >> visit >> http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2011/10/testing-for-frontend-spof.html >> see what gets loaded & look at # requests, data xfer size & time on >> the all/html/css/etc. tab >> >> visit http://fasterdata.es.net/science-dmz/DTN/tuning/ >> see what gets loaded & how long it takes >> >> click on the back button >> see what gets loaded & how long it takes >> >> click on the forward button >> see what gets loaded & how long it takes >> WTF!? >> click on the GET /science-dmz/DTN/tuning line & notice the response header >> of >> Cache-Control:"no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate, >> no-transform" >> >> paste >> "http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2011/10/testing-for-frontend-spof.html"; >> into the URL bar >> see what gets loaded & how long it takes >> >> >> >> I understand that "little benefit" can mean different things to >> different people, so type "about:cache" into the url bar >> in the disk section, click on list cache entries >> how many entries have a fetch count > 1 ? >> does that meet your definition of "little benefit"? >> >> I tried visiting reddit & opened 4 threads in new tabs, so there was >> no forward/back button clicking & no page reloads >> about:cache?storage=disk&context= shows >> https://e.thumbs.redditmedia.com/pF525auqxnTG-FFj.png 500977 byte s >> 5 2017-07-10 16:11:25 2037-10-24 17:32:41 >> >> downloading 500KB instead of 2.5MB is not my definition of "little >> benefit" >> >> Lee >> > > All of those links open so fast I can't count. > > But, then again: > > <http://speedtest.xfinity.com/results/J4YG0JOH2A61JXY>
Thanks for making my point. I do see a difference & I suspect others will too. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
