Firefox pulls up a cached version of my homepage (a cyclone warning/tracking page) showing me old information. Now I have surprise damage from a storm I should have known about, how do I get it to not cache this page?
I set my homepage to the Navy Research Labs tropical cyclone warning page so I can be sure to see developing storms every time I start my browser, but now it simply caches a version of the page. The cached page that shows old information, defeating my purpose. How can I get firefox not to display a the cached version of this page by default? (Yes, obviously I already know I can refresh the page each time. That is NOT my question)
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If you leave tabs open to have them displayed automatically on the next start then you need to clear the browser cache when you close Firefox to prevent showing a cached version.
- Tools > Options > Privacy : History: [X] Clear history when Firefox closes > Settings
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clear+Recent+History
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I am not leaving the tabs open so that they display automatically, that tab is almost always closed before I shut down the browser. It displays automatically because I have it set as my homepage (during cyclone season at least).
Sounds like it is default behavior and that the only thing I can do is to manually override it, every time, if I want it to actually try to load the page with current weather.
If Firefox loads pages from the cache on startup then your only option to get a fresh page is to clear the cache when you close Firefox or reload the page. In severe cases you may need to bypass the cache (Ctrl+F5).
Thanks, I'm not looking for a manual fix that needs to be applied every time though. Over the course of a 5 month cyclone season I'll lose discipline for that.
I'm confident I can find a different browser that will in fact load my homepage fresh from the internet on startup. Seems like a pretty basic browser function and it's a safety issue for me.