Caching of panoramas in a Virtual Tour

[nmendes]

Mostly I use FPP for displaying Virtual Tours of properties, so there is a lot of hotspots that connect house rooms so the user can navigate freely. The problem is that the Browser doesn't seem to cache (store in memory) the loaded panoramas, and every time the user goes back to one visited room, it loads the same panorama again (and more waiting is necessary).
My guess is that there's no way I can cache the panoramas (they are big to use in fullscreen) inside the browser's cache.
Anyone using some creative approaches to this problem?

[jaaaab]

Hi

Normaly FPP puts the loaded panoramas in cache.

Did you checked your browser options? isn't it set to "nocache"?

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[nmendes]

Jaaaab: I'm using Firefox "out of the box", with no tweaking of the settings, with full support for caching. But everytime I click on a hotspot that leads to a panorama that I've already loaded before, it still loads as it was a fresh one. With 2mb panos in a house with 10+ rooms it's really overkill.

[WideEyes]

Hi nmendes

Perhaps you can find some answers in this thread ( http://www.flashpanoramas.com/forum/...read.php?t=527 ) about preloading panoramas.

Just a thought

Best regards
Morten

[nmendes]

WideEyes: Thank you for the reply. I guess we're kinda stuck. The preloading of images does not seem to work, at least in my tests. It seems that Flash Player doesn't use the browser's cache?

[jaaaab]

hi nmendes

does this behaviour happen also when you look at panoramas from other sites?

then it comes from Firefox.... are you sure there's no added toolbars like Web Developper?

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