How does Network Predictor work?

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How does Network Predictor work?

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I see that there are entries in prefs that turn this on by default (network.predictor.enabled = true) and sets other parameters. I recall that this was called Seer when it first came out. It had it's own sort of cache database that used to get incredibly large. I don't see such a database anymore.

Does anyone know how this all works? As you might have read in other posts of mine I seem to be getting old data on weather.com and I'm wondering if this network predictor is involved. I turned it off and things seem a little better. I recall seeing cache entries with the tag 'predictor-' in front of the URL. Weather.com was one of them.

**** well that was short lived. Getting forecasts that are hours old again.
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Re: How does Network Predictor work?

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Looks like it stores it's 'predictions' in the normal disk cache. I found this there.

Key: predictor-origin:http://www.weather.com/

Cache entry information
key: http://www.weather.com/
fetch count: 7
last fetched: 2015-06-30 15:47:41
last modified: 2015-06-30 15:47:04
expires: No expiration time
Data size: 0 B
Security: This document does not have any security info associated with it.
predictor::seen: 1
predictor::http://injections.adguard.com/: 1,6,1435693616,0
predictor::http://tags.crwdcntrl.net/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://www.weather.com/: 1,6,1435693616,0
predictor::http://c.amazon-adsystem.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://s.w-x.co/: 1,3,1435693610,0
predictor::http://ajax.googleapis.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://rtax.criteo.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://ad.crwdcntrl.net/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://aax.amazon-adsystem.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://dsx.weather.com/: 1,6,1435693616,0
predictor::http://triggers.wfxtriggers.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://fonts.googleapis.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://cdn.taboola.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://cdn.gigya.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://fonts.gstatic.com/: 1,2,1435693606,0
predictor::http://gima.weather.com/: 1,3,1435693616,0
predictor::http://dev.virtualearth.net/: 1,1,1435693606,0
predictor::http://g3.imwx.com/: 1,2,1435693606,0
predictor::http://g1.imwx.com/: 1,2,1435693606,0
predictor::http://g2.imwx.com/: 1,2,1435693606,0
predictor::http://g0.imwx.com/: 1,2,1435693606,0
predictor::http://tags.tiqcdn.com/: 1,4,1435693616,0
predictor::http://www.googletagservices.com/: 1,4,1435693616,0
predictor::http://odc.weather.com/: 1,2,1435693616,0
predictor::http://h.nexac.com/: 1,2,1435693616,0
predictor::http://b.scorecardresearch.com/: 1,4,1435693616,0
predictor::http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/: 1,2,1435693616,0
predictor::http://c2.taboola.com/: 1,2,1435693616,0
predictor::http://partner.googleadservices.com/: 1,2,1435693616,0
predictor::resource-count: 1
predictor::http://gscounters.us1.gigya.com/: 1,1,1435693616,0
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