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Post by _v7gu » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 7:50 AM UTC

unicornporn wrote: post #139

graderjs wrote: post #135

Hello everyone! Thank you for the love I really appreciate it. I did not expect this to blow up like it has I got up this morning and it was sitting on front page and there's a lot more interest which is great. I feel sad for some people to see that they are having issues with the binaries/connecting to chrome, I will get to work on that today and hopefully have some resolutions pushed out in half a day, so please ch…

Thank YOU! And I want to ass that a Chrome extension is not a very internet friendly choice. Firefox needs all the love it can get these days. :)

Post by rusk » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:23 AM UTC

radlad wrote: post #99

rusk wrote: post #78

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Kind of. HTTP was designed with caching in mind, so the idea was that if you GET a page it should more or less not change and you could add headers and stuff to instruct proxy servers about whether to cache or not and for how long. I think you could use HEAD then to check if a page had changed ... The browser cache used to actually be quite dependable as an offline way to view pages but this seems to have fallen out…

> Kind of. HTTP was designed with caching in mind, so the idea was that if you GET a page it should more or less not change and you could add headers and stuff to instruct proxy servers about whether to cache or not and for how long. I think you could use HEAD then to check if a page had changed ... Nothing in the HTTP spec has changed about this AFAIK. The internet still behaves this way. > Anyway, you can no longer…

Post by graderjs » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:34 AM UTC

m0zg wrote: post #136

Search in the roadmap is exciting. It'd often be great to constrain search to just the pages I already visited, and there's never an option to do so. And because it's not a full index of the web with billions of pages, this search could be _a lot_ smarter than general purpose search, since it could actually understand both the pages and the query better in a completely privacy-protecting way using recent techniques t…

Post by graderjs » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:48 AM UTC

segmondy wrote: post #76

I just wanna cache all my bookmarks, I rarely look at them, but when I do go look at them, a good chunk tend to have rotted. It will be awesome to cache all my bookmarks and then have option to recursively cache the path I'm in. I don't want to cache every page I visit, 90% is junk.

Post by account42 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:00 PM UTC

rusk wrote: post #79

reaperducer wrote: post #35

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I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching. In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, inste…

Back in the nineties the web was fairly new and people still used a thing called usenet quite a bit. You interacted with it kind of like email (Google groups is actually the final vestiges of it) - and the go offline button would just download all your emails and newsgroups and you got peruse them offline at your pleasure. It might seem strange also that back in those days you downloaded your emails from a server usi…