[axel77]

The http protocol of the web was originally designed to be very caching, using a lot of proxy caches along the way, just rember how slow the data flowed at that time... Proxies were a fundamental part of the design, and it was marketed a lot with this. As technology evolved however the tubes got faster better/cheaper than the storing tech, and also the growing number of active content on the web made proxy caches less and less useful, so people today get already the impression that caching is someting not to be done in this tech at all.. this is wrong.

About google caching your data, you know you can turn them off caching in the html header? Okay its an opt-out solution, but no one complain, if you care about your data to be personal/onetime/nocaching, its up to you to put it in the web the right way.#

@firefox 3, I don't have good experiences with firefox 3, it does behave much slower on my system and often enough hangs itself or even the whole system. Dont tell me, they tell you its faster and uses less memory. On my system it does not, and a lot of Ubuntu users have the same problems. I love my Firefox 2 however. Maybe I just need to wait a while longer to get FF3 wortwhile.