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As I hadn't ever really noticed this problem, I decided to see what would happen if I hit the back button in firefox after disabling my wireless adapter. After
by ekiru 17y ago
As I hadn't ever really noticed this problem, I decided to see what would happen if I hit the back button in firefox after disabling my wireless adapter. After reading the article, I was quite surprised that it went back to HN perfectly. I also tested it with a longer back/forward history. In one attempt, I was able to back/forward through seven pages(that's all that I had been to in that tab at the time) without having internet access. Is there some subset of web sites for which this wouldn't work properly, as the author seems to be saying? Is the subset of scenarios in which the back button works only a small portion of typical scenarios?
- lincolnq 17y agoI think if Firefox knows you're online, it will hit the server (sending e.g., If-Modified-Since), but if you go offline, it can tell and puts itself in offline mode, where it browses from the cache only. You can do the same experiment just by doing File - Work Offline.
- ekiru 17y agoAh. Of course. I didn't consider that possibility. Now I've tried back/forward while connected to the internet and looking at Network Usage in Activity Monitor. I noticed that most of the times when I hit back/forward, there was no network traffic. I expect most of the traffic I did notice was either due to cache refreshes or due to other apps(probably mostly Thunderbird) I have running.
- Herring 17y agoLook at digg. It's is a pain on pages with long comment threads. Other than that, I have no idea what this topic is about. Going back works fine for me in all the ways he mentioned.