Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
by pawadu on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:33AM
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Why should it save the whole page when it only needs to remember the URL? At most, maybe also any form data you have entered. Small enough to keep thousands of pages in memory.
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It doesn't save the whole page. Just the url, scrolling position, form data and session cookies. If you're browsing with 500 tabs, most of which contain nested frames, including Facebook "Like" icons and the like, that's actually quite a lot.
And what if the server sends something different back when you visit the URL again?
The internet allows it to do that.
The job of a browser is to view the internet. Not to cache it.
It needs to save enough state to give you the same view.
Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
by tedmielczarek on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:56PM
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Go disable your browser cache and try browsing the internet for a while and tell me if you really believe that.