How To > Fix Firefox Cache Problems (& also my artwork button)
Some of you probably come to this site often enough that you would like to be able to click the artwork changer button. In Internet Explorer it works perfect all the time and I thought with the release of Firefox 2.01 that it fixed the problem. However I have since determined that it was just my own settings that made it work.
I spent some time today figuring out which setting caused it to work. Below is the answer:
Open a new tab, in address bar type: about:config and hit enter.
In filter box type browser.cache.memory.enable
If something shows up make sure it is set to false, if nothing shows up, right click in blank space and choose: New > Boolean then type browser.cache.memory.enable > false (type in if no choice given).
Exit browser, and open page, and artwork pallet will work.
Why this works and what else this might fix. For some reason firefox ignores browser rules where people have told the webpage to specifically NOT cache itself. I know I am not the only web designer who has found this frustrating and there is a lot of forum posts on the internet dealing with people trying to make caching work, however this is the only real fix I have found that works 100% of the time.
I browsed around and found no speed loss after turning this on. In fact while doing this I noticed that my browser.cache.disk.enable was set to false, which is why I sites I had been going to were loading every image 1 by 1 instead of the same image loading several times. You might want to check to make sure that is set to True as well. I assume mine got turned off during some web development session to make it less annoying to refresh all the time.
All is good now, hope this helps you enjoy this and other sites more.
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