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Thread: Firefox not refreshing forums homepage? |
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when i go to forums, the named 'last poster' is not really the last poster unless i reload the page.
when i enter the thread, then i see the real 'last poster'. |
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RT
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This has to do with whether FireFox uses the cached temporary internet files on your computer or fetches a new copy each time you visit a page.
----------------------------------------I don't think it has anything to do with the WCG Forums. Check by using the "Reload" button. Go to your help and search on "cache" there it explains how to set the cache size. It does not seem to have the same control that Microsoft IE does but at least it lets you set the overall size of the cache and allows you to clear it at any time. Regards and Thanks for Contiributing.  |
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Firefox memory leaks are a ‘feature’ :
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29707 He said that most of the people who moaned about memory leakage on Fireferret 1.5 failed to realise that what they were complaining about was actually a ‘feature’ of the software. Goodger said that to improve performance when navigating Firefox 1.5 uses a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last few session history entries. He said that this can mean that Firefox can end up storing a lot of data, but it did give the browser faster navigation speeds. Firebadger has a preference browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers file which by default is set to -1. This will mean that by default you will save eight pages of information. If you want to save memory you can set it to 0 but your page load performance will suffer, he said. |
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If reloading the page corrects the Last Post to show who actually posted, then cache is definately the cause. There is another case in which this is not the cause. When viewing the Forum Index page, I have seen that the person listed for the Last Post was often not. It appears that this is due to the fact that our forums are running on two servers and that the Forum Index page reflects who was the last person to post on the server you are logged in to.
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