Tag Archives: Firefox

Top 7 Myths about HTTPS

January 01th, 2011 - 4:04PM

Myth #7 – HTTPS Never Caches People often claim that HTTPS content is never cached by the browser; perhaps because that seems like a sensible idea in terms of security. In reality, HTTPS caching is controllable with response headers just like HTTP. Eric Lawrence explains this succinctly in his IEInternals blog: It comes as a surprise to many that by-default, all versions of Internet Explorer will cache HTTPS content so long as the caching headers allow it. If a resource is sent with a Cache-Control: max-age=600 directive, for instance, IE will cache the resource for ten minutes. The use of … Continue reading →

Support for Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 and New URL Columns

December 12nd, 2010 - 4:21PM

Firefox 4.0 Beta 8 is now available for download and includes improvements to WebGL, Sync and the Addon manager. HttpWatch will work with this version of  Firefox if you download and install HttpWatch version 7.1.23 . We have also included some new columns in HttpWatch that display different parts of a URL: Here’s a screenshot of the File Name and Host Name columns:

Asynchronous Google Analytics is Better but Not Faster

July 07th, 2010 - 5:27PM

In December 2009, Google launched the asynchronous version of the Google Analytics script. The update aimed to address potential script blocking problems that have been extensively researched and reported by Steve Souders at Google. Steve’s blog post about the new asynchronous loading of Google Analytics identified three potential benefits: Your pages should load faster Availability or performance problems at Google should have less impact on your site Analytics data is more likely to be collected if a user leaves a page early Before applying the change to our web site we decide to compare the new and old versions of … Continue reading →