> And all of that gets lost if I close a tab or even restart my browser to upgrade.
Or when you just visit a link and then press the back-button.
I remember 20 years ago you would press the back-button and your
previous page was IMMEDIATELY restored, no network request
involved.
It feels like today the browser cache isn't used at all. This is
especially disappointing with the new Firefox Mobil where they removed
offline-mode among other features.
I think this depends on the website implementation / headers. For example, for any SPA, you hit the back button and get what you had before, often times no network requests made at all because local data caching.
As a web developer I see having control over this rather than the web browser as a good thing.
Was a time that the cache pragma / reload interval could be explicitly set by the client.
As much as ensuring current data is sometimes relevant, having a tab show up empty, with a 404 (linkrot), or with some redirect to utterly unrelated content is ... not serenity-inducing.
Mozilla's operating premise is that the browser serves users, not publishers. That promise rings somewhat hollow these days, though I enthusiastically applaud the concept.
Or when you just visit a link and then press the back-button.
I remember 20 years ago you would press the back-button and your previous page was IMMEDIATELY restored, no network request involved.
It feels like today the browser cache isn't used at all. This is especially disappointing with the new Firefox Mobil where they removed offline-mode among other features.