Firefox 1.5 and up uses in-memory caching for entire Web pages, including their JavaScript states, for a single browser session. Going backward and forward between visited
pages requires no page loading and the JavaScript states are preserved. This feature, referred to by some as bfcache (for "Back-Forward Cache"), makes page navigation very fast.
This caching state is preserved until the user closes the browser.
However, this Firefox feature caches the page viewstate field as well thus breaking the asynchronous postback calls to the server in some scenarios (page
refreshes, Back button navigation). For example the problem is evident if you refresh a page in Firefox with the F5 button and not with the
Ctrl+F5 combination (the former does not clear the form values, whereas the latter does clear them) and then try to perform an Ajax request. The result you would most
certainly get is a "The state information is invalid for this page and might be corrupted" page exception.
The Mozilla Development Center states that setting cache-control: no-store in the response header of the page prevents Firefox from
caching the page so you could use the following code snippet to add a cache-control: no-store response header to any page requested by any browser that is
not Internet Explorer:
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protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Request.Browser.MSDomVersion.Major == 0) // Non IE
Browser?)
{
Response.Cache.SetNoStore(); // No client side cashing for
non IE browsers
}
}
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Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As
Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If (Request.Browser.MSDomVersion.Major = 0) Then Response.Cache.SetNoStore()
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