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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:24:05 -0700
From:      little.analyst892@aceecat.org
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT(?): Prevent firefox caching local files
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 08:12:35AM -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:

> I have a jpg that is the generated output of a process I run and it
> does very from run to run but when ever I try to load it in firefox
> I get the cached version not the local generated version (i.e.
> file:///.../.../foo.jpg) but when I view it in something like gnome
> image viewer it is in fact updated!

> The only thing I can assume is firefox is caching file:/// url's how
> do I turn this off.  This firefox 114.0.2_1_2 (installed last
> night)... so how do I turn this off?

Is the mtime of the file changing (rising, one hopes) when it gets
modified? If yes, this looks like a bug. I'm currently too ill to
go searching for it, but I may later.

-- 
Ian



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