Cache control tab

In this tab you can setup how documents are updated in the cache: browsing modes, secure protocol control behavior and so on.

To open Cache control tab open Ad Annihilator Options window and switch to Cache control tab by clicking on its name.

Following options are available:

• "Browsing mode" - here a current browsing mode can be selected like you can do this with "Browsing mode" button on Ad Annihilator toolbar. To learn about browsing modes see Understanding browsing modes;

• "Do not cache secure documents (HTTPS)" - if checked, documents and resources retrieved via secure protocol (HTTPS) are not stored in Ad Annihilator cache. Many Internet sites are set up to prevent unauthorized people from seeing the information that is sent to or from those sites. These are called secure sites. You can send information to a secure site with safety and confidence. This information usually include personal information, credit card data and so on. The pages retrieved from secure sites usually display such sensitive data so their storing in cache is not recommended as these pages could be retrieved from cache later without Internet connection availability. We recommend having this option on so as to not store such secure documents in the cache. However, the drawback of having this option off is that you are not able to browse secure sites offline. See Understanding offline browsing for more information on offline browsing;

• "Store partially retrieved documents and resources" - when this option is checked, Ad Annihilator stores partially retrieved documents and resources in cache so that they could be retrieved in partial form from cache or their downloading be resumed later. Having this option on speeds up browsing in case you return to partially retrieved page later as Ad Annihilator is able to resume downloading from the point it was broken at and not from the start. This is especially useful in downloading of large files with Ad Annihilator as their retrieval could be easily resumed from the point at which it was broken in case Internet connection is instable or was interrupted manually. This feature reminds the tasks solved by download manager software so you could use Ad Annihilator as a simple download manager as well. See How to download large files? for more information.
  The drawback of having this option on is littering of your cache with unnecessary partially retrieved files and wasting disk space with them in case you need only fully retrieved documents and resource and don't need downloading of large files.
  Note that not every site supports resuming of resource downloading, and Ad Annihilator and download manager software  can do nothing about this.