Improving Browser Caches with Extensions and Personal Proxies

A number of companies have offered products in this area. Many of these were ill-designed, and so only a few remain.

• Web 3000's NetSonic Internet accelerator replaces your browsers cache with its own larger one, plus it notifies you when the content has changed (when you are looking at an old version of the page). For Windows.

• MicroSurfer organizes links, provides offline viewing, and background page loading. For Windows.

• Imsisoft's Net Accelerator prefetches available links and graphics, and keeps your favorite links up-to-date. Uses browser cache.

• eAcceleration offers Webcellerator, a web accelerator that provides caching improvements, and is free when their portal is used as your home page.