It has nothing to do with how brain dead your browser is, but how its preferences are set. I can set IE to refresh a page every time I come to it, to only refresh once in a session, or to refresh whenever content is change. Zoe Brion VIBBER brion@pobox.com wrote: Erik Zachte wrote:
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I wonder how much web bandwidth and server processing power is consumed by diligent wikipedians browing the list of 'recent changes', checking an article and returning to the list by pressing the back button, thus generating a new request to the database, over and over again.
They should use a browser that's not so brain-dead that it can't tell that the forward and back buttons are for zipping through pages that are already open and should not be loaded all over again.
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