Edgar Peinelt wrote:
>I still prefer Netscape to IE, but this is certainly a drawback. Not to
>speak of the RAM Cache management which in my experience is a source of
>problems and cannot be manipulated with the Mac versions of Netscape.
It can be manipulated in the sense that it can be turned off or modified in
size, but there's no interface to clear or invalidate it. You might try
holding down various arcane combinations of meta keys while clicking reload
to force it to get a new copy of whatever you're trying to look at.
Chanting helps too. IE is much more consistent in this regard;
option-reload always works (cache management is basically just a major win
with IE, though it's still far from what I'd call ideal). I can't recall
the key combinations that work on Mac Netscape (though shift usually does
the trick on most of the Unix versions).
and Wade S. Martinson wrote:
>I've been very happy with a 1.1 MB RAM disk, with Netscape then set
>to use it as the cache folder. I whipped up a little AppleScript
>that moves everything from the RAM disk to the trash and then empties
>the trash - putting the script in the Shutdown Items folder gets rid
>of those annoying "The contents of RAM Disk will be lost..." dialogs
>on shutdown.
If you're just using main memory for your cache anyway (and not using the
RAM disk for anything else), you might as well just turn the disk cache
right off and use RAM directly. It'll probably be faster, and as a plus
you'll reclaim the memory when you quit Netscape. As with clearing the
memory cache above, there's no user interface for this in the Mac version
of Netscape (this is mostly attributable to the hopeless memory management
in the classic Mac OS, I'm afraid) but you can manually set it up in the
preferences file. Open "Netscape Preferences" in a text editor like BBEdit
and insert the following:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_size", 0);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory_cache_size", 1124);
Adjust the second one to taste (the value given is in kilobytes). Make sure
you replace the existing lines for disk_cache_size and memory_cache_size,
of course. You can ignore the "don't edit me" warning at the top of the
file. ;) The whole file is essentially just Javascript, so it's fairly
flexible and the order of lines doesn't matter (unless you create duplicate
entries, which you shouldn't). You might want to add a corresponding amount
to Navigator's memory partition, though I'm never sure these days just
whose heap web browsers are getting their memory from...
There's actually a utility out there which does nothing but offer a user
interface to make this modification for you: only on the Mac would such a
thing happen (especially as shareware). This is not necessarily a
compliment. ;)
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