Caches would have to be useful on a slow connection otherwise when you go
back and forth you would reload what has already been loaded... You talk of
stability in such situations but surely at the cost of great slowness
unless you are not revisiting pages?
In my version of IE (5.1.6) the options are to give the size and location
and how to update pages, "once per session", "never", "always". "Once
per..." has been my choice cos this seems to be the best option meaning it
virtually refreshes from previous sessions but not within a session ("Checks
for updated content only if you return to a Web page you visited in a
previous Internet Explorer session. If the page has changed, Internet
Explorer displays the newer version of the page and stores a copy in the
cache")
There is no option on mine to simply turn it off. Anyway, I give it 10MB.
IE, the App, I give preferred memory 32,768 (lots).
Location, probably an important concept: this is hard disk space (unless you
use a Ram Disk, lets not get into this here). Important that hard disk is
good, defragged and has plenty of free space. Defragging is important as if
a cache is spread over here and there it will put strain on the system.
David Elmo
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Browser Caches : useful or not?
>
> I run a PM 7300/Sonnet G3 300 w/ 384mb RAM running OS 8.1.
>
> With a cable modem, I use AOL 5.0 for the Mac (SAVE the boos and hisses!),
> which uses IE as its browser. I also have a version of IE 4.0.1 seperatley.
>
> Until a few minutes ago, AOL and IE kept constantly "unexpectedly quit"ing,
> with various errors (Types 1, 2 and 3 mostly) whenever I tried to goto a web
> page w/ AOL, and whenever I tried to goto MORE THAN THREE pages on the
> stand-alone IE.
>
> I thought about it, and before I brought my case to the list, I tried setting
> my browser cache (shared by both AOL's IE and the stand-alone IE) from NO
> CACHE to 50mb.
>
> When using AOL w/ dial-up and w/o a G3 processer in the past, I have found
> that using it w/o the browser cache made things more stable; I no longer had
> to
> keep remembering to EMPTY the dang thing everytime it filled up.
>
> BUT as soon as I set the browser cache to be on, AND to 50mb space, ever
> ything started working just fine. No more crashes in AOL when browsing with
> it's
> built-in IE, or while using the stand-alone IE 4.0.1.
>
> What gives?
>
> Craig W.
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