Cache
Friday, November 20, 2009
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A webpage may seem like any other printed page, but in reality it is more like a puzzle. Webpages are made up of blocks of text, images, colors, formatting, multimedia effects, sounds and other bits and pieces. And all these little pieces are not necessarily stored in the same place. So your web browser’s job is to get all these pieces and reassemble them, so that you can view the finished product.
If you think this sounds like a lot of work, you’re right. It is a lot of work for your browser. So to make things easier, when your web browser notices that you view certain pages often, it will take some of those pieces that make up your favorite pages and store them on your computer. This way, the next time you want to view your favorite webpages, all the little pieces that make up those pages are easy for your web browser to find. This is called caching.
Your cache is a place to store recently accessed data. Having cache makes surfing the Internet quicker and more convenient for you. It sounds like a really good idea, but think about cache from another point of view.
Imagine someone else sitting down to your computer and opening up your cache file. They would be able to see images, text, video and more from all the websites that you have visited. They would basically be able to see what you had seen. Would you want someone else to access to that information?
Cache makes the loading of webpages a little quicker, but cache also poses a big privacy concern. If you want to be sure that no one can use your cache to intrude on your privacy then you need Private IE.
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