Information and advice for tweaking your IE and Firefox browser settings to avoid common caching problems.
Compatibility?
Internet Explorer may still be the most prevalent browser, but for compatibility with various W3C standards, Firefox and Mozilla are way ahead. IE7 may be slightly better, but seems to introduce new compatibility issues.
Advice on Caching Issues
When you visit a Web site for the first time your browser downloads all the various page elements (images, text, stylesheets etc.) to your computer's hard drive. You now have a "local cached copy" of this Web page. When you decide to visit the Web site again your browser first looks in the cache and rather than re-downloading all the page content again, it displays your "local cached copy". This approach speeds up web browsing but can be problematic, especially with certain interactive Web pages that serve up dynamic content.We have definitely seen some caching problems with Plone, the new Content Managment Software (CMS) our new Web site uses.
We highly recommend that you follow ALL of the changes suggested below. These changes may also alleviate problems you encounter with other Web sites.
First you will want to follow the instructions for disabling your cache. If you still experience problems refer to the following two documents:
If you have still have problems please let us know. Good luck!
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