IE settings

[Sherri]

In IE under internet options which is the best setting to use
check for newer stored pages:
1 Every visit
2 on IE Startup
3 Automatically
4 never

Mine is set at automatically but wondering if the first option is the best or does it matter?

[amb141]

Sherri

Automatically.

"Every Visit" will eliminate the advantage of loading unchanged webpages from the Temporary Internet Files cache on the hard drive (fast) rather than downloading the page from the internet (slow.)

I'm not really sure what "on IE startup" implies but

"Never" would mean that you will never get an up-to-date webpage if an older version is stored in the TIF cache unless you refresh the page (F5.)

alan

[Ranger Bob]

I have my IE set for "Every visit to the web page" but I have a cable connection so speed is not a problem. I had a problem with all images not loading on a web page and had seen that this sometimes helps the problem.

Alan if you have IE set to empty the TIF on exit don't you loss some of this advantage if you set it for Automatically?

[amb141]

RB

Well, in that case there wouldn't be any difference between setting the browser to check for an updated page "Automatically" or "Every Visit" since it would be compelled to check automatically on every visit anyway.

But it doesn't make much sense to me to dump the TIFs after every IE session. I normally set my browser cache to a fairly small size -- doesn't matter which browser -- and then let the TIFs remain unless the browser starts to misbehave (by not completely loading the images on a page, for instance.) Setting a small browser cache should prevent that odd problem of only being able to save web images as bitmaps which happens sometimes when the browser cache is stuffed.

That way the elements of an unchanged webpage WILL load quickly from the cache whether you re-visit the page today, tomorrow or next week.

alan

[Ranger Bob]

Originally posted by amb141@Nov 22 2003, 11:19 AM
RB

Well, in that case there wouldn't be any difference between setting the browser to check for an updated page "Automatically" or "Every Visit" since it would be compelled to check automatically on every visit anyway.

But it doesn't make much sense to me to dump the TIFs after every IE session. I normally set my browser cache to a fairly small size -- doesn't matter which browser -- and then let the TIFs remain unless the browser starts to misbehave (by not completely loading the images on a page, for instance.) Setting a small browser cache should prevent that odd problem of only being able to save web images as bitmaps which happens sometimes when the browser cache is stuffed.

That way the elements of an unchanged webpage WILL load quickly from the cache whether you re-visit the page today, tomorrow or next week.

alan
Yes I agree but many people do enable this setting in IE so I just wanted to point this out.