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September 19, 2006
Firefox not caching?
Recently my Firefox browser stopped caching. I'm not sure exactly when, but it was around the time of my ADSL upgrade, so at first I thought my connection was just a bit screwy. It soon became evident that this wasn't the problem though. The symptoms were sloooow loading of pages, most evident on things like forums where lots of little identical icons were loaded incredibly tediously, one after the other. The back button would take an age too.
I discovered the fix yesterday. I then found that my mate Tommy had the exact same problem, so I thought it would be useful to publish the fix:
Type about:config into the address bar. You'll get a list of settings, with the ones that have been changed from default values highlighted in bold. I found two entries relating to caching that were set to false - browser.cache.disk.enable and browser.cache.memory.enable. Right-click the entry and select 'reset'.
That's it - full speed should be restored.
I've no idea how this happened in the first place. It may have been induced by a 1.5.x upgrade. Who knows...
Posted by Jez at September 19, 2006 05:26 PM
Comments
Jez, I've been noticing the same thing for awhile as well - THANK YOU for pointing out the solution. I've been using a beta version of FF 2 (now final) so I'm not sure if the version had anything to do with it. I wonder how widespread this problem is, and what we all did to trigger it?
Posted by: Si at November 13, 2006 10:24 AM
Thank you very much - if only I'd taken the time to search out your fix earlier!
Posted by: Avi Pinhas at December 8, 2006 04:37 AM
Thank you for posting this - I had this randomly happen a couple days ago (after clearing the cache and doing a spyware scan) and it was annoying me immensely!
Posted by: Alana at January 17, 2007 04:09 AM