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[Axel Beckert <abe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Fred,

Fred wrote:
> Oh sorry, I just thought it was a really good idea.

It actually is a good _idea_, just not a very realistic one. :-(

Even all the Mozilla based browsers aren't sharing their caches
despite the file format is the same. And it seems as if this wanted by
Mozilla for some reason.

> Because I thought it was so dumb that all web browsers use cache and
> they all fetch the same stuff, but store it in different places.

You basically just asked at the wrong place: No Linux distribution has
the power to convince all the browser makers, especially Mozilla and
Google (who both care a shit about distributions IMHO), to do such a
thing. And it's the browser makers where this should start. Maybe the
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is a better place to dump/plant this
wish/idea.

  Regards, Axel (with his links{,2}, dillo and conkeror maintainer hat on)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/888662

Title:
  Web browsers should share the cache

Status in “amaya” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “chimera2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “dillo” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “dooble” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “elinks” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “epiphany-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “links” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “links2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “luakit” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “lynx-cur” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “netrik” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “netsurf” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “surf” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “uzbl” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “w3m” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “xxxterm” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Web browsers should share the browser cache;
  * Reduce disk usage
  * Reduce network bandwidth usage
  * Make it easier to clean the cache
  * Unify and centralize common cache

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