how can i work offline in the latest firefox?

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mike821
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how can i work offline in the latest firefox?

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back when i was on a dial up connection and used internet explorer i would be able to work offline and see all the websites that i had been to recently without being connected to the internet, but in firefox if i go to developer>work offline all of the websites i have visited cannot be seen, i get a message like "cannot access website because you are working offline"
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Re: how can i work offline in the latest firefox?

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Try "File->Work offline".
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Alt + F select Work Offline
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DanRaisch wrote:Try "File->Work offline".
i tried that, i does not work because as soon as i click work offline i cannot access any of the webpages that i recently viewed online. how can i work offline like i used to with internet explorer when i could be offline and browse webpages that i had previously browsed while online? thanks.
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malliz wrote:Alt + F select Work Offline
ok i tried that too but i does not work because as soon as i click work offline i cannot access any of the webpages that i recently viewed online. how can i work offline like i used to with internet explorer when i could be offline and browse webpages that i had previously browsed while online? thanks.
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Are you not able to access even very recently visited links? Have you reduced the size of your cache? How are you trying to browse these pages? I can see recent pages via the browser's history page (Alt+S) in off-line mode.
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Are you not able to access even very recently visited links?
no, i cant access links that i have just been to even right before i clicked work offline.
Have you reduced the size of your cache?
no, it says cache limit is 350 MB
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I can see recent pages via the browser's history page (Alt+S) in off-line mode.
apparently i am able to access some of the recent pages via the history page. i have increased cache size to 1000 MB in case that helps.
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I've never used the "work offline' function, but I assume it uses your browsing history. If so, you don't have Firefox mistakenly configured to "clear history when Firefox closes," do you? Just a thought...

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you don't have Firefox mistakenly configured to "clear history when Firefox closes," do you?
i dont have clear history when firefox closes checked.
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i notice that i am not able to raise the cache past 1024 MB, i think this may be the reason why i have difficulty accessing recently visited websites offline.

so i started a new thread:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14783349
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is it possible that certain websites may have a setting that prevents them from being seen offline? like this one:

https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/f ... ane-forum/
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is it possible that certain websites may have a setting that prevents them from being seen offline?
Yes.
https://
Secure sites, the content that travels over https: will not be cached - unless the site specifically allow it (basically).
(Perhaps more generally, & more accurately, the site needs to allow caching. MDN: HTTP caching.)

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URL: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/forum/1-general-x-plane-forum/
Cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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