Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams wrote:
> When I click on a link in an e-mail or mailing list message, such as
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> My default browser (Firefox) starts up and loads a cached copy of the page, 
> rather than the online page itself. So the example given above, results in me 
> looking at
>
> file:///home/bob/.kde4/cache-barrowhillfarm/krun/6996.0.smart-questions.html
>
> I can't remember when this started happening. I don't remember consciously 
> changing any setting. Is there some way to get it back to loading the actual 
> link address into the browser address bar?
>
> Bob
>   
You don't mention which version of Firefox nor which version of oS you
are running; nevertheless, Firefox stores all webpages you access, and
anything you download from the 'net like Youtube videos, in
~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache and when you request a webpage it
brings up the one stored in Cache *if that page has not been updated by
the URL the page came from*; if it has been updated then it will get the
new page from the URL. In your case, what appears to be happening is
that the page you have requested has not changed from the one you asked
for at an earlier time.

However, things can go wrong and one of the recognised fixes for suspect
problems like the one you mention is to *delete* the directory 'Cache'
(or its contents) - it will recreate itself automatically when you start
Firefox.

(*NOTE*: Knowing what Cache contains may be important to some people
because it is very easy to view the individual files in Cache by simply
clicking on each using, say, konqueror and, now, dolphin.

Also, what you view, either in the cache or elsewhere, is copied into
~/.thumbnails; so if you don't want other people to see what you have
been looking at then bear this in mind.

The Cache archives its contents at the end of the day (or at some point,
unknown to me) and the archive can be 'unarchived' to see what it
contains (there is an app. which will do this).

On the other hand, ~/.thumbnails just keeps retaining what you have
looked at - and if your wife/girlfriend catches on and looks in here
then your life could just become slightly "messy" :-) .)

Ciao.


-- 
"I do not instruct the uninterested; I do not help those who fail to try. If I 
mention one corner of a subject and the pupil does not deduce therefrom the 
other three, I drop him."
                                              Confucius


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