On 19.05.2011 19:44, Rufus wrote: --- Original Message ---
> Jay Garcia wrote: >> 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 They're also referencing an outdated http/1.1 spec as well.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. >> >> > > Do a lot of surfing for 3D graphic content which takes me to some fairly > intensive graphical sites and I don't seem to notice any slowdown with > my caches set to zero. I also have my pref set to check for new content > once per session, but now I'm thinking I should set it to "Never". > As they say here "whatever ruffles yer oyster". :-) -- *Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion* www.ufaq.org Netscape - Firefox - SeaMonkey - Thunderbird _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
