disable mozilla / firebird cache?

[astika]

for the life of me, i cannot figure out why mozilla or firebird continue to
cache pages, when i explicitly tell them not to. after many times of
(re)compiling and deleting profiles, settings, and such, i still cannot get past
the fact that they cache pages no matter what.

in firebird's case, i set the following options: (using about:config)
browser.cache.check_doc_frequency > 1
browser.cache.disk.capacity > 0
browser.cache.disk.enable > false
browser.cache.enable > false
browser.cache.memory.enable > false
network.http.use_cache > false

and in mozilla's case, i set similar settings through their preferences menu.

i am making simple text changes to an .html page on a local server. and
neither browser will update on a Reload or SHIFT+Reload. it seems i have
to wait for a couple minutes, before i can hit reload and the changes are
then read and displayed.

i even went as far as to make a dummy /Cache folder in my profile folder
that was non-writable, to see if that helped. it did not. as a web
developer, this is a real pain in the a**. can anyone offer some
suggestions?

(yes i know putting the whole Pragma no-cache settings in headers and so
forth would fix it, but i should not have to do that.)

thanks in advance.
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