Re: galeon (and moz) are site-sticky

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 12:00, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I don't understand what you're asking.  Can you give a more detailed
> > example?
> 
> i am at starbucks on t-mobile hotpoint 802.11.  i start galeon.
> all is cool.  dhcp gives me dns which is 1918 space.  i move to an
> office with ether and get new addresses, dns, etc.  if i pick a new
> site in galeon, it fails to look up dns.
> 
> i.e. galeon/moz has code to bind to the dns.  this has to be
> *extra* code that is really not needed as the underlying dns
> servers, whether on the client box or on the local net, will cache
> for me.
> 
> it also seems to suck too much bookmark etc. data into ram and not
> check if disk has changed.  for those roaming rsync fans, this can
> hurt.  but, as these are the browser's own date structures, one can
> not really complain.  the dns is exogenous.

Okay, I understand now.  Have you brought this up the galeon/Mozilla
developers?

Joe

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