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 -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 4.2.0 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org