Firefox equivalent of Internet Explorer’s Every Time I visit the Web page

We have a little rotating web page setup in our break room, and have been using a dial indicator to show our performance in bookings and shipments. However, due to the nature of the set-up (a page, showing a flash file, that is configured by an XML file), it turned out to be necessary in Internet Explorer to use the option “Every time I visit the webpage” on the “Check for newer versions of stored pages:” setting in the Temporary Internet Files and History Settings.

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 7 still can’t handle CSS properly, so some of the tables looked horrible. Switching to Firefox fixed that problem. But now the old data was showing. And where is that “Newer versions of stored pages” setting in Firefox???

It’s hiding in the config. In the address bar, type

about:config

Then find the setting browser.cache.check_doc_frequency, and change it to 1. This will duplicate the Internet Explorer behavior (as far as loading cached page goes, mind you!).

The options for this setting are as follows:

ValueDescription
0Check for a new version of a page once per session
1Check for a new version every time a page is loaded
2Never check for a new version – always load the page from cache
3Check for a new version when the page is out of date (Default)

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Comments

  1. yogi says:

    sir, as i log in in my reliance money account, there is a a message displayed that you should have IE6 or more than that in your computer. I dont know what is equivalent of IE6 in linux. Please help me out.

    • I suggest contacting the web master of your reliance money account web site. He has some test that rejects anything not Internet Explorer, and needs to update that test (Firefox 1.0 is compatible with most of IE6, and if the website uses ActiveX controls, I’d stay away from it anyway).

      If all that fails, try IEs4Linux. This describes how to install IE under Linux, which should make all your problems go away.

  2. yogi says:

    sir, as i log in in my reliance money account, there is a a message displayed that you should have IE6 or more than that in your computer. I dont know what is equivalent of IE6 in linux. Please help me out.

    • I suggest contacting the web master of your reliance money account web site. He has some test that rejects anything not Internet Explorer, and needs to update that test (Firefox 1.0 is compatible with most of IE6, and if the website uses ActiveX controls, I’d stay away from it anyway).

      If all that fails, try IEs4Linux. This describes how to install IE under Linux, which should make all your problems go away.

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