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How do I force Firefox to clear cache?
Clear the cache
- In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Preferences.
- Select the Privacy & Security panel.
- In the Cookies and Site Data section, click Clear Data….
- Remove the check mark in front of Cookies and Site Data.
- With Cached Web Content check marked, click the Clear button.
What is hard refresh?
A hard refresh clears your browser cache for a specific page, which forces it to load the most recent version of that page. This could include new scripts, styles or features. Important: Clicking the “Refresh” arrow on your browser address bar is not a hard refresh.
How do I force my browser to refresh cache?
How to hard refresh browser and clear cache if you’re using Chrome.
- Hold down Ctrl and click the Reload button.
- Or Hold down Ctrl and press F5.
How do I force a full refresh of my browser?
I always use Ctrl + Shift + F5 out of habit, it should force a full-refresh including by-passing any http proxies you may be going through. Show activity on this post.
How do I reload the cache in Firefox?
If, however, you only want to reload the cache periodically, and you are using Firefox, the Web Developer tools (under the Tools menu item as of November 2015) provides a Network option. This includes a Reload button. Select the Reload for a once off cache reset.
How do I refresh a style sheet in the cache?
If you update a style sheet and want to make sure it gets refreshed in every visitor’s cache, a very popular method to do that is to add a version number as a GET parameter. That way, the style sheet gets refreshed when necessary, but not more often than that.
Can the browser cache the CSS file?
The browser will be able to cache the CSS file, but when you make any changes to your CSS the browser will see this as a new URL, so it won’t use the cached copy. This can also work with images, favicons, and JavaScript.