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I dunno what exactly it's called, by cache refresh I mean, refresh the page after clearing its cache. I don't want to clear the entire browser cache.

I prefer Chrome's Dev panel against firebug... don't ask me why. But I can't seem to cache refresh my pages. In FF, I know it to be Shift+Refresh.

In chrome, I've tried Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Refresh, Alt+Refresh, Shift+Refresh but none of them work.

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I'm fairly certain a hard refresh is ctrl-f5 just like all the other browsers. – Joel Potter Sep 7 '09 at 20:50
ctrl+F5 works fine for me as well. – Twisol Sep 7 '09 at 20:52
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My version's 4.0.206.1 Tried it again after making a change to my source code (PHP). Refreshed fine in FF with Shift+F5. Change didn't show up Chrome after Ctrl+Refresh. – gAMBOOKa Sep 7 '09 at 20:54
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What about mac version? – Brian Armstrong May 3 '10 at 21:57
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Command-Shift-R works in Mac (OS X 10.6.7 and Chrome 17.0.963.56). – Joseph Mornin Feb 28 at 14:44
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Another interesting option is to open a new incognito window (ctrl+shift+n). This window won't use any stored cookies, cached content, or dns resolutions, so you can test stuff in it without slowing your normal browsing down by dumping the cache. This is what I almost always do instead of clearing the cache.

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+1 I find Chrome will cache file downloads. This is especially frustrating when I'm working on apache/nginx configs and I'm downloading index.php instead of viewing it. The only way is the clear the entire cache, use incognito, or use Firefox. – James Mar 14 '11 at 16:29
+1 nice idea :) – Danjah Feb 12 at 20:40
argh, except sometimes it doesn't work. I just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out why my externally loaded SWF file wasn't accurate. Firefox showed it as being correct, no keystroke refresh combo in Incognito Chrome cleared the SWF from cache, nor did clearing the actual Chrome cache and refreshing the Incognito window. I had to close and re-open Incognito window completely for the cache to finally let go of the SWF. Was working fine for about an hour until this happened :/ – Danjah Feb 12 at 22:39
Again 5 minutes later, this is not a reliable solution insofar as I can tell. Chrome v17.0.963.46 m – Danjah Feb 12 at 22:47
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According to documentation, ctrl-F5 or shift-F5 should work. Maybe you have a proxy configured on IE & chrome, which is caching your page?

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If you really want to be sure you have to clear the cache using Tools options. – Sorin Sbarnea Jul 22 '10 at 16:17
You need to clear the cache using Tools in order to flush the favicon from the cache; normal hard-reload doesn't do it. – romkyns Dec 22 '10 at 19:03
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Chrome's a bitch for this. Sometimes I can get Shift+F5 to work but not always. My solution for the moment is to use the 'Click & Clean' extension. It's ugly but works every time so I'd recommend that for now.

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For me, Ctrl+Shift+R twice works every time. I don't know why they made it so annoying. – romkyns Sep 8 '11 at 13:46
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A workaround is hitting reload very quickly twice in a row.

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May 2010, Linux Chromium seems to work using Shift+F5 but not Ctrl+F5

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I've had problems with Chrome refreshing in spite of using shift+f5 or command+shift+r. What I've found works though pretty brutish is to hold down command+shift+r for a few seconds so that the browser makes multiple attempts to refresh the java cache and fails. Then the next time it successfully retrieve JS from the server.

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Yes, I can confirm this. I've been doing this myself. – gAMBOOKa Oct 13 '10 at 3:43
Agreed...me too. – Stimul8d Oct 22 '10 at 7:14
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Open Chrome Developer Tools (F5). Click the settings icon (a gear in the bottom right corner). Check "Disable cache". Now when you browse with your Developer tools open caching is disabled.

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it could simply be your keyboard settings, check if you have the functions keys enabled or disabled, with my logitech keybaord it is the FMode key, similar to NumLock!

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  1. Click the Tools menu. (the wrench in the upper-right corner)

  2. Select Options.

  3. Click the Under the Hood tab.

  4. Click Clear browsing data…

  5. Check the boxes for the types of information you wish to delete.

    • Clear browsing history
    • Clear download history
    • Empty the cache
    • Delete cookies
    • Clear saved passwords

You can also choose the period of time you wish to delete cached information using the Clear data from this period dropdown menu.

  1. Click Clear Browsing Data when ready.
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Why would I delete my entire cache to test a single page?! I'd rather use Firefox. – gAMBOOKa Oct 20 '10 at 8:31
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For me the incognito window was the only solution once I go incognito every refresh reloads the javascript (8.0.552.210 beta on Ubuntu 10.4) All else fails

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Ctrl+Shift+F5 seems to work for me.

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