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In Firefox, I occasionally need to clear my cache to fix a website. But clearing the entire cache seems like extreme overkill. Is there any way to just clear the one site from my cache?

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If you want to do a force-refresh, which is what I think you want to do, hit CTRL+F5. And of course, Cmd+F5 on a Mac. Works on Chrome too.

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loads voiceover in osx 10.6.7 – Pete Herbert Penito Apr 7 '11 at 22:37
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CMD + SHIFT + R ... the function keys are per default used by OSX. – Kenneth B Oct 17 '11 at 9:32
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That's not necessarily true. Resources like html templates are cached every time I'm trying to develop. – James South Apr 2 '12 at 18:19
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any idea how to do this for a page that was using a 301 redirect to another domain, but is no longer? I haven't been able to hit ctrl-F5 fast enough, and the redirect keeps happening – matt wilkie Apr 18 '12 at 5:06
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This only clears THAT page from the cache. from the cited page above: "To force a reload of everything on the page,...use the hotkey combination Ctrl-F5." – Clay Nichols Dec 28 '12 at 19:45
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this addon will allow you view and delete specific cache entries from memory and disk - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489/

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There is no built in way to clear the cache of specific pages/sites in Firefox. You can "Forget about this site" which cleans the domain from history, you can "Delete this page" which cleans the specific page from history, but you can't clean up single cache items belonging to a page (apart from going to your profile folder and deleting them).

There may be addons to do this, but I didn't find anything when looking through them. Built-In functionality for cache deletion seems to have the all-or-nothing policy.

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Where are the options you mentioned for "Forget about this site" and "Delete this page"? – mouseas Jun 20 '12 at 17:16
@mouseas, at least the history sidebar (Ctrl-H). – Matthew Flaschen May 17 at 21:20
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There's a similar question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/671057/firefox-addon-to-remove-cache-and-cookies-of-one-domain

and answers shortly are:
- You can use firefox by 2 profiles.
- There's a cookie named CookieMonster may works for you:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4703
- There are two add-ons for FF that every web developer needs and they are Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug, the Firebug extension YSlow comes in very handy too.
Web Developer Toolbar has great cache and cookie control down to individual cookies.
- Ctrl-F5 is enough usually.

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Those are mostly for cookies. I just care about dropping a domain from cache. – Ryan Thompson Aug 7 '10 at 20:54
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One day when you have not opened anything else, go to Tools ⇨ Clear recent history and then select to only clear the cache and then only from today or Xtime. Because you just visited the website, it should have moved its timestamps in the cache to the top of the list so you can just wipe all cache from Firefox for that day and thus clear the cache for your specific website.

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A lot of trouble to go to for such a trivial purpose. – Isaac Rabinovitch Nov 19 '12 at 22:04

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