Stephen, Your right, it works on the cache principle, so everytime you visit a web site, it copies off the data in a disk cache, then when you return to the site, it checks to see if anything is different, if so it appends the new info to your hard drive cache. But, that's a small price to pay, considering the performance enhancement, besides you can adjust the size the cache and number of threads it looks ahead.
My guess is that they are already working on revisions, and one I that I would recommend to them is that they allow some sort of utility cleanup by site, to be able to limit it, or purge older outdated data.
But for now, it's a kick butt little program, and with the size of hard drives and also the new removable drives like Zip and Jaz, I think this is a minor problem, but for those that are working on a small HD and little or no upgrade path available, this could be a major drawback. With base systems being Pentium and 1.6 gig drives and 16 meg of ram, I don't think it will stop the demand at all, IMO.
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