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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org