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Firefox problem, was Re: IRC speakup with BWW this Saturday (3 of March)!
Dave Yeo:
Usually a crash or hang will invalidate the whole cache.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---Usually a crash or hang will invalidate the whole cache.
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Perhaps that is what it is supposed to do, but it is my experience, that whatever caused the crash is cached, and FF tries to go back to it, causing another crash. What i try to do, is force it to the default home page, ASAP after the program starts, then go and clear the cache, before going anywhere else. Sometimes, a crash might invalidate the cache, but that is rare, from what I see. A hang never invalidates anything.
Dave Yeo:
I have lots of experience with depending on the cache, and after a crash, every page needs to be reloaded. On dial-up I got into the habit of very frequent backups and restores after a crash to avoid having to reload everything, at least here with my usual profile and SM.
Guess it is possible that FF acts different but I doubt it, could be a profile thing.
Next time you have a crash, look before restarting the browser and the cache should have been renamed to something like cache.trash1234567890 with random numbers. If not, it's a bug. After starting it should delete the trash cache and build a new one.
David Graser:
I have noticed that the amount of CPU trashing changes with sites one goes to. OS2World home page is low. This other site is low
http://ecsoft2.org/
However when I go this another web page at the same site, the CPU usage goes up trememndously.
http://ecsoft2.org/popular
Go back to to the home page and it drops tremendously. So it appears to be certain web pages that cause these browsers to go bonkers. So what is it about sites such as this that cause the browsers to overreact?
I wonder if it is possible to build into Firefox or Seamonkey the ability to use another caching program such as Oops. On a properties page select external cache program and have a text box to point it to it, similar to what FM/2 and PMMail do for for external editors.
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/server/oops-1-5-24.zip
Dave Yeo:
--- Quote from: David Graser on March 06, 2018, 01:54:02 pm ---I have noticed that the amount of CPU trashing changes with sites one goes to. OS2World home page is low. This other site is low
http://ecsoft2.org/
However when I go this another web page at the same site, the CPU usage goes up trememndously.
http://ecsoft2.org/popular
Go back to to the home page and it drops tremendously. So it appears to be certain web pages that cause these browsers to go bonkers. So what is it about sites such as this that cause the browsers to overreact?
--- End quote ---
Likely just whatever JavaScript they're running, and some run a lot. Hopefully Bitwise will figure it out
--- Quote ---I wonder if it is possible to build into Firefox or Seamonkey the ability to use another caching program such as Oops. On a properties page select external cache program and have a text box to point it to it, similar to what FM/2 and PMMail do for for external editors.
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/server/oops-1-5-24.zip
--- End quote ---
Sure, oops or squid are easy to use with Firefox or SeaMonkey as they're just proxies.
For SM for example, you'd install oops including creating its cache and adding it the startup folder or such so it is always running, and then Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced-->Proxies-->Manual proxy configuration: and put in localhost (or 127.0.0.1) and the correct port number, such as 3128.
Even on dial up, using oops or squid didn't seem to make much difference and with more sites becoming HTTPS, they have a harder time caching everything.
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