Maybe it’s something in UI, but many times I watch pictures (not even videos, they are their own can of worms), and want to save them, it shows me that I’m downloading them again although they are cached in whatever app I see them from.
Like this link with a happy dog: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/1e/52/711e52f1d6c7ead78f4380214f68c259.jpg
I see it in high rez in my browser, I can zoom in, and I can’t tell any difference from a copy that I can download, but it’s still, well, another download if I want to save it, and not a move from cache to my download folder, another request to the server, another waste of traffic.
Is there some rule of sandboxing for everything you load that I don’t know about? In cases like our fediverse, I wouldn’t like to cause double load when I already have the picture I want. Can I cut it down with some plugin in mobile Firefox?
I feel like I’m missing something big time.
That’s crazy. I love Safari (I know, it sucks and I’m in the minority) and it usually caches things in memory and doesn’t redownload. Have I been in Appleland too long?
I’m a web developer and deal mostly with complex backend stuff, but is this issue of browsers not caching content common? This is news to me.
Edit: Omg never mind, I did misunderstand the question. It’s when saving it that it redownloads and yeah, I’ve totally noticed it too.