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I like using Chrome as my everyday browser, as well as for web dev work. I'd like to be able to prevent Chrome from caching anything from localhost (or really, any arbitrary host name) so that I don't have to hard-refresh (Ctrl-Shift-R) all the time.

Is this possible? How?

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I have the same question, I use johnnycache for FireFox, but something like that for Chrome would be nice – festerwim Sep 30 '11 at 8:21
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This is already possible if you switch to Incognito mode for that site/host.

Ctrl + Shift + N

Viewing a site in Incognito mode should give you a clean slate void of any cached items and images.

If you're in a session, then it will reset it for you too. So you may want to watch for that when developing.

But if you really need to disable it on a per-site basis, then no. It's not currently possible.

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To be blunt, incognito is even more of a pain than Ctrl-Shift-R. – Matt Ball Mar 17 '11 at 15:57
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You can't turn off the cache discriminately, but as of v15, you can turn it off completely via a settings panel that you access by clicking the gear button in the lower right corner of the developer tools window. On the network panel of the developer tools, you also have the option to clear cache from the right-click menu with only a confirmation dialog (i.e. it doesn't pop up the preferences tab the way "Clear Browsing Data" does.

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I never noticed this before, really useful. – Nicholas W Feb 2 at 12:22
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