On 19.05.2011 12:01, David E. Ross wrote: --- Original Message ---
> On 5/19/11 9:16 AM, Jay Garcia wrote: >> On 19.05.2011 10:33, David E. Ross wrote: >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >>> On 5/19/11 8:18 AM, Jay Garcia wrote: >>>> On 19.05.2011 08:51, Rick Merrill wrote: >>>> >>>> --- Original Message --- >>>> >>>>> How can you tell if a site you frequent >>>>> is setup to use prefetch of web pages? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I think you're confusing prefetch with "cache". There is no prefetch as >>>> such for web pages. >>>> >>>> To find your cache entries in SM, enter about:cache in the URL location >>>> window and then under Disk Cache Device, click the link "List Cache >>>> Entries" - a list of all cached sites,etc. will be displayed. >>>> >>> >>> No prefetch? On the SeaMonkey menu bar, go to [Edit > Preferences]. On >>> the Preferences window, select [Advanced > Cache] under Category (left >>> pane). On the bottom of the Cache pane is a checkbox to enable >>> prefetching. >>> >>> See <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ>. >>> >> >> From the FAQ: >> >> "When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served >> up quickly out of the browser's cache" .. Note: cache :-) >> >> With today's connection speeds, CPU and RAM speeds, I see no advantages >> to what they call "prefetch", same theory basically as Windows PreFetch >> which IMHO is useless. >> >> They're also referencing an outdated http/1.1 spec as well. >> > > Obviously, prefetching would not cause a Web page to appear in a user's > browser before the user requests it. The prefectched page does come > from the cache, but it went into the cache by being prefetched from the > Web before the user requested it. > Prefetching web pages still doesn't make any sense - Chicken or egg first issue! :-) And it appears that the page header must contain <link rel="prefetch" ....> in order to work, dunno, really haven't researched that much. -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
