Prevent caching of local HTML pages in Firefox

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I know this question has been asked multiple times before, but none of the solutions posted are not working for me.

The problem scenario is: I am using set of local HTML pages which is having DOM & Content processing functionalities(these are not just the static pages). Now on click of the Back button Browser displays the cached page which is not desirable, I need reloaded html page.

I have put the following in the tag, to prevent HTML page caching, but it still cache the HTML page and displays the cached content:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Back button loads the cached version in FF because it's designed this way, and I've never seen it working differently. — Fabrício Matté, Jul 19 '12 at 07:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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I think you're seeing the bfcache in action. https://stackoverflow.com/a/3695577/873567 has a trick that prevents it from kicking in.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Jul 19 '12 at 07:41

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