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Comment by SilasX

2 years ago

lol what? Every Firefox tab I’ve ever switched to after restarting has done a full, across-the-wire reload.

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magicalhippo  2 years ago

Sites like Facebook or Reddit do indeed do a full reload, but most sites I frequent do not. Nice to be able to pick up where I left. If I want updated content I just hit F5.

  • SilasX  2 years ago

    We’re talking about coming from a restart, not the back button.

    • magicalhippo  2 years ago

      Yes, that's what I was talking about too. Like I said I have to hit F5 to get updated content after a restart on most sites.

DaoVeles  2 years ago

Same here. This is only on one laptop that I use for rubbish but the full reload takes a few minutes.

  • bruce511  2 years ago

    Might be OS dependant? My Firefox does not reload the page, it's just "there". I have to refresh to get an update of the page (I use it for forums).

    I'm on Windows if that makes any difference.

    • iggldiggl  2 years ago

      I think it rather depends on the page (some pages with lots of dynamically generated content might mark themselves as no-cache/no-store), and in any case if you don't use a tab long enough, sooner or later it'll be evicted from the browser cache.