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Originally Posted by pjwren13
I understand the whole process of using the back button to exit out of most programs but what about the browser if you hit the back button it goes back to the previous viewed page?
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Yes. And I'm not sure what the advantage of that is; I tested it by simply browsing the web for a while, backing out via hitting the back arrow, then checking the cache.
Then cleared the cache, browsed the exact same news pages (CNN and CBS News), killed the browser on the last page by hitting the home button, then checked the cache and it was within a few kilos of the same size as when backing out.
So, the cache stores it all and needs to be cleared irrespective of how the browser is exited. My question is similar to yours; what advantage is there in backing out of the browser? There may be one, but it is not reducing the cache size (which would seem obvious anyway, but I did want to be sure and tested it, this being a phone device and not my laptop computer).