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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by gcp on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:07PM (#12565623)
And what if the server sends something different back when you visit the URL again?

The internet allows it to do that.

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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by qznc on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:27PM (#12565815)
The job of a browser is to view the internet. Not to cache it.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by gcp on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:15PM (#12566244)
It needs to save enough state to give you the same view.
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Re:Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox by tedmielczarek on Friday September 23, 2016 @01:56PM (#12566617)
Go disable your browser cache and try browsing the internet for a while and tell me if you really believe that.
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