Stop browser to make HTTP requests for images that should stay cached - mod_expires

Question

After reading many articles and some questions on here, I finally succeded in activating the Apache mod_expires to tell the browser it MUST cache images

Answer 1

If I force a refresh using F5 or F5 + Ctrl, a request is send. However if I close the browser and enter the url again then NO reqeust is send. The way I tested if a request is send or not was by using breakpoints on begin request on the server even when a request is not send it still shows up in Firebug as having done a 7 ms wait, so beware of this.