PigPog Blog - Running Internet Explorer (from: PubSub: TabletPC)

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[Scoble’s Link Blog] Firefox tends to refresh pages more than I want it to, and whenever it refreshes a page, it refreshes the images on it too - that can get expensive. Using the hidden about:config page, there’s a setting to tell it not to refresh, but that breaks Bloglines. IE can be told to never refresh pages without breaking Bloglines, and it doesn’t go refetching images that it’s already got cached.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

PigPog Blog » Blog Archive » Running Internet Explorer: Since I’m not on an unlimited package, it’s important for me to limit the amount of data transferred - it costs money. Firefox tends to refresh pages more than I want it to, and whenever it refreshes a page, it refreshes the images on it too - that can get expensive. Using the hidden about:config page, there’s a setting to tell it not to refresh, but that breaks Bloglines. IE can be told to never refresh pages without breaking Bloglines, and it doesn’t go refetching images that it’s already got cached.

PigPog Blog: There’s a load of Toshiba software on the machine to start with, and surprisingly, some of it is actually quite good. Their ConfigFree networking software has dealt with everything I’ve pointed it at so far, and whenever Bluetooth has played up, it seems to be able to fix it itself. The only part I’ve actually got irritated enough by to get rid of so far is the gesturing software, as it got in the way of right-button drag ‘n’ drop - not something everyone uses, but I tend to use it a lot.

PigPog Blog » 2005 » May » 14: Since I’m not on an unlimited package, it’s important for me to limit the amount of data transferred - it costs money. Firefox tends to refresh pages more than I want it to, and whenever it refreshes a page, it refreshes the images on it too - that can get expensive. Using the hidden about:config page, there’s a setting to tell it not to refresh, but that breaks Bloglines. IE can be told to never refresh pages without breaking Bloglines, and it doesn’t go refetching images that it’s already got cached.

PigPog Blog » Computers: Since I’m not on an unlimited package, it’s important for me to limit the amount of data transferred - it costs money. Firefox tends to refresh pages more than I want it to, and whenever it refreshes a page, it refreshes the images on it too - that can get expensive. Using the hidden about:config page, there’s a setting to tell it not to refresh, but that breaks Bloglines. IE can be told to never refresh pages without breaking Bloglines, and it doesn’t go refetching images that it’s already got cached.

Clarifying Yahoo's RSS Refresh and Ping Server (by Jeremy Zawodny): Still, the reason I felt frustrated in the first place is that this is what ping services like weblogs.com were originally intended for--a central way to notify services anywhere that a blog's content had changed, so the blogger wouldn't have to do it himself. The vision was that by setting up a central community resource, the content publisher could perform one simple step and anyone who wanted fresh content could come and get it. With 12 ping services now around, each serving different needs and different applications, it seems that model is being changed and now a blog author is expected to individually ping every consumer of his or her feed if he/she wants the changes refreshed in a timely basis.

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Posted at May 23, 2005 03:37 PM