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When you’re developing web applications in Firefox, do you find yourself constantly clearing your cache? Cache is a useful facet of web browsing for everything but the continuous testing environment of web development. Here’s a nice alternative so that you don’t have to disable your cache entirely:
Use the Firefox Plug-In called (humorously enough) JohnnyCache. I added the pattern ‘http://localhost/’ to my preferences and now I don’t have to worry about cache on my local machine anymore. Simple, easy, effective.
Now only if I knew how to disable the Firefox preference that autopopulates form fields with default values when F5 is hit to refresh the page. Try creating a page with a single text field, type a value into the form, and then hit F5 to refresh the page. Your value will be prefilled into the form.
I find myself always hitting “CTRL L” (goes to the Location Bar) and “Enter” to avoid that one. I looked through about:config, but only found: signon.prefillForms (related to usernames and passwords), and browser.formfill.enable (related to autocomplete dropdowns for forms, not default values).
Anyone know an easier method?
This content originally appeared on Zach Leatherman and was authored by Zach Leatherman
Zach Leatherman | Sciencx (2008-03-23T05:00:00+00:00) Minor Annoyances with Firefox Development. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2008/03/23/minor-annoyances-with-firefox-development/
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