Internet Browser: Difference between revisions

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Settings in System Settings.

This wasn't enforced(web-browser displaying the above message when the installed browser isn't the latest version) until October 26, 2015~~. In some cases this message isn't displayed(as in some systems never displayed the message yet), the cause is unknown. It's unknown how exactly this is handled~~.

This wasn't enforced(web-browser displaying the above message when the installed browser isn't the latest version) until October 26, 2015.

This message only triggers when attempting to load a web-page.

This message only triggers when attempting to load a web-page. This is only handled the first time the browser accesses a web-page, during this browser session.

The browser codebins starting with v9.9 now contain the following URL strings:

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Hence, internal_browserver == server_browserver will trigger the sysupdate message, which appears to be the normal way to indicate that the current browser is outdated(see above).

~~The HTTP Last-Modified timestamp for this URL~~ seems to be ~~cached~~ in savedata(?) ~~somewhere.~~

There seems to be some sort of cache for this in savedata?(The browser doesn't do this request every time a web-page is initially accessed)

It is still possible to guard against this update by blocking the previous URLs using a proxy.

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   Settings in System Settings.
-This wasn't enforced(web-browser displaying the above message when the installed browser isn't the latest version) until October 26, 2015. In some cases this message isn't displayed(as in some systems never displayed the message yet), the cause is unknown. It's unknown how exactly this is handled.
+This wasn't enforced(web-browser displaying the above message when the installed browser isn't the latest version) until October 26, 2015.
-This message only triggers when attempting to load a web-page.
+This message only triggers when attempting to load a web-page. This is only handled the first time the browser accesses a web-page, during this browser session.
 The browser codebins starting with v9.9 now contain the following URL strings:
@@ Line 397: / Line 397: @@
 Hence, internal_browserver == server_browserver will trigger the sysupdate message, which appears to be the normal way to indicate that the current browser is outdated(see above).
-The HTTP Last-Modified timestamp for this URL seems to be cached in savedata(?) somewhere.
+There seems to be some sort of cache for this in savedata?(The browser doesn't do this request every time a web-page is initially accessed)
 It is still possible to guard against this update by blocking the previous URLs using a proxy.