I found a bug on this, and it seems like this is a known issue that will
be fixed. See
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75098
Stephen Moehle
narbey derbekyan wrote:
>
> This is exactly the behavior I was refering to. Thanks Stephen.
>
> I think many CGI and other dynamic websites expect the older
> behaviour and therefore the new cache may break things.
>
> After reading the bugzilla comments, it would appear the developers
> are thinking from scratch as to how the cache should behave. I'd vote
> for the older behavior.
>
> narbey
>
> Stephen Moehle wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> What about pages like the following?
>>
>> http://www.slashdot.org/
>> http://www.slashdot.org/
>> http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
>>
>> With my caching preferences set to "Once per session", these pages
>> never refresh unless I explicitly reload them. And this is not just
>> browsing through session history, but loading the pages from bookmarks
>> or by entering the URL directly into the Location bar. This behavior
>> was introduced with the new cache. Previously, Mozilla would always
>> seem to refresh the pages when they were viewed as does NN4.
>>
>> When I look at about:cache, the expiration time is always some time in
>> the past, but this does not seem to be enough to cause Mozilla to
>> refetch the page on its own.
>>
>> Stephen Moehle
