Bug #4145
closed
Interfaces widget - interface details missing
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Description
After the latest batch of patches, as soon as CPU usage bar stops refreshing, the interface details (speed, duplex, mode for wireless) vanish from the widget.
Updated by Kill Bill over 10 years ago
Sorry, this is not a widget issue. Another browser caching problem in action. Guys, would it be possible to produce a checkbox somewhere in advanced settings to disable this caching nonsense altogether? Causes more harm than good here.
Updated by Phillip Davis over 10 years ago
To fix various widget behavior, I keep making minor changes to the way some of the backround update data is passed around, and thus corresponding changes to the JavaScript that receives and displays it. The *.js files get cached in the browser/s. In Firefox you can disabled this caching by:
1) Put "about:config" in the address bar and press enter.
2) Search (ctrl-F) for "use-cache".
3) Double-click that setting, it will change to "false".
During this development time it might be worth doing that.
For the final release it would be good if browsers saw the js/css... as different. There are some tricks that might be able to make that happen - I will have a play with it.
Updated by Chris Buechler over 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
doing something to ensure browsers don't excessively cache js and css is something we've discussed internally, but haven't decided on "X is what should be done." It requires some experimentation to see what will work without disabling caching entirely. For most of us, the caching isn't all that helpful as the files are very small relative to our connection speeds to the system. But that's not always true.