Haven't investigated but if the page didn't have an Expires or Cache-Control: max-age then the browser may be using If-Modified-Since to avoid downloading the page unnecessarily but that would still require a round trip to the server.
On 5/7/2013 13:02, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > If I understand, TBB disables disk cache & has memory cache enabled. > This is the way I do it w/ Fx, because I've got lots of RAM & it's > much faster than disk. Normally, going back to a page already visited > in Fx is almost instantaneous. Definitely NOT the case in latest > stable TBB - or ever. > > In TBB, browser.cache.memory.enable is set True. I've got 8 GB, so by > default I believe Fx would allow ~ 32,000 KB. I even added the entry > in TBB about:config, browser.cache.memory.capacity & set it higher > than 32,000 KB. That entry may be deprecated - dunno. It's still slow > reloading pages - ones I looked at 5 sec ago. > > What is TBB doing or what is the difference that makes it so slow in > reloading cached pages compared to regular Fx? Should have nothing to > do w/ slow Tor network or relays. On a machine like this w/ very fast > CPU, plenty of free RAM & a good graphics card, why should reloading > recent pages be any slower in TBB than Fx? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
