On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 02:30:44PM +0000, таракан wrote:
Surely failing to cache such things is a needless deficiency which would be called a bug by most user's?
I wouldn't call that a bug... caching is very,very error-prone and as I said inherently a security problem. In other area than computation, AI, etc... caching is generally used for multimedia applications. I consider it as a stupid technique in such area. Sensitive things should never be cached...
Cahe enable/disable shall be a setting - that is trivial to do. Then the question of default rises. Failure to cache things that the user expects to be cached, is really irritating - firefox bugged me for years, despite many attempts to force caching of everything... We can also do something inbetween - e.g. have pop-up menu to swap current default setting for this item, or purge entire cache, or backup to another instance (say, from phone to your workstation across a local or ad-hoc wireless) any useful functions the user might want, with different defaults a click away :)