Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 23:35:15 Basil Chupin wrote:
> Bob Williams wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> No. My problem is not with revisiting pages that Firefox has stored in its
> cache. My problem occurs when I click on a link in an external program,
> such as KMail 1.11, which then opens Firefox (or whichever browser is set
> as my default) and loads a cached (in ~/.kde4/cache/..) vesion of the link
> I clicked on. IOW, my browser is showing me a local file, not a remote site
> on the web.
>
>
>
> I am not using kmail but use Thunderbird and Firefox. I am also using
> 11.1.with KDE4.2 but it is a 32-bit system.
>
> The setup which you are using is probably creating the situation you
> mention above because I do not have any directory '~/.kde4/cache/' no
> matter what I try and do. What I do have in ~/.kde4 are symlinks such as
> '~cache-xxxxxx' which all point to /var/tmp/kde-<username>. These symlinks
> (I have 3 of them) have been created on different dates but none created
> last night or this morning when I did some testing re your problem.
>
> What happens if you delete '/.kde4/cache/'- where does the browser go then,
> and does the cache get recreated?
I renamed the ~/.kde4/cache-barrowhillfarm folder, and it created a similar 
one in the form of a symlink pointing to /var/tmp/kde-<username> as you 
describe. But the unwanted behaviour is unchanged.

When I click on a link, a dialog opens bottom right of the screen, which shows 
the progress of the copy process, prior to the browser opening. So I'm sure 
it's a KMail or KDE4 feature. I'd just like to find where to switch it off.

> As I mentioned earlier, Firefox caches its info in
> /.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache/; on this basis I suspect that some
> setting in kmail is creating the cache in .kde4 and 'forcing' FF to use it.
I agree.

> (Just out of curiosity what is the setting in FF's
> Edit>Preferences>Main>Start>When Firefox Starts [??Show My Home Page??]?)
This is set to 'Show My Home Page' which points to a locally stored file. I'll 
try setting it to 'blank' and see what happens...

...no change :(

Bob
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