mist aggressive webcache

[jorisbontje]

mist webcache persistence seems to be very aggressive; even persisted after restarts and removing ~/.ethereum

I would expect this to be more in line with cache in regular webbrowsers, or atleast have a way to clear cache

[tgerring]

@jorisbontje Just want to confirm that you're on Linux when removing ~/.ethereum?

OS-specific data directories were implemented in #368 in case you're testing on a Mac (or Windows 🙀)

[obscuren]

What do you mean by aggressive? Editing a web page and hitting refresh doesn't keep it in cache, it changes. Same goes for resources (JavaScript (files), images, etc)

Removing ~/.ethereum or ~/Library/Ethereum has nothing to do with caching

[jorisbontje]

@tgerring thanks, I am on OSX and deleting ~/Library/Ethereum/.
@obscuren Let me show you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3GXxgEXW0

[obscuren]

Right click -> reload is a default Qt chromium menu and doesn't work in 5.4 (it simply doesn't reload). Right click is bugged to begin with because it screws up the UI (fix WIP). Reloading by clicking in the URL bar and hit enter works fine as far as I can tell.

[jorisbontje]

@obscuren clicking the URL bar works only sometimes... http://youtu.be/hN3GXxgEXW0?t=1m49s

[obscuren]

right click is bugged. It locks up the ui to focus on the render engine. Don't right click and will work.

Working on a fix for right click

[jorisbontje]

closing as mist is gone

[bellaj]

ethereum/mist#418