Konqueror vs Firefox

[David Boles]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 23:52 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>> Since I already have a copy in cache, all I need to do is copy it.
>> Sweet! 
> 
> I'd tried doing similar things in the past, but quite often the thing
> you wanted wasn't cached.  Not even at that moment.  There's an awful
> lot of websites that bugger up caching.  Trying to use a browser in
> off-line mode, stepping through the cache, frequently doesn't work.  But
> you'd expect that something that you were currently looking at would
> have files sitting in your cache, at least.  And, no, I'm not talking
> about something served through HTTPS when you you've got settings not to
> cache securely received pages.
> 
>> I go into the Cache directory and use ls -lart and there will be the
>> newest file added to the directory and listed at the tail of the list.
>> Sweet again! Since my dnloads are so blooming slow, it gives me
>> something to do besides play solitaire. :) Ric 
> 
> On a whim, I just tried that to see what was in mine.  In the past, I'd
> seen cache directories that were a pile of sub-directories, so I didn't
> expect that I'd see useful results.  But there was just one directory
> full of cached files.
> 
> Then did a "file" command on one of the files listed.  It was a DOS
> executable.  Hmm, don't you just love *NOT* running a Microsoft OS or
> browser when you web browse...?
> 


Curious. Do you still have the file or do you remember it's name?

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   David