On 19.05.2011 13:36, Rufus wrote:

 --- Original Message ---

> 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 They're also referencing an outdated http/1.1 spec as well.
>>
> 
> ...one more reason I run SM with my cache space set to zero.
> 

Not set to zero here mainly because I routinely visit the same
photography sites with many images on one page.


-- 
*Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion*
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Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird
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