For questions about web browsers caching data on the local machine.
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Google Chrome “Failed to load resource” at Windows 8
I have bought a Samsung NP350E5C notebook with pre-installed Windows 8.
All is fine, besides Google Chrome. When I'm opening most web pages, different resources are not loaded - JS files, CSS files, ...
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Why don't browser cache common JS files? [closed]
One of the big tradeoffs in web development is on reducing the total size of your JS files to maintain page load times low.
My reasonable guess is that most websites include a similar subset of JS ...
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Chrome allowing cookies despite telling it not to
I have locked down Chrome to be very strict on the cookies and data it stores both temporarily and long term. I have ticked the following boxes in cookie settings:
and I currently have an exception ...
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How can I fix a “No site configured at this address” error?
My internet connection is working fine, but when I go to http://www.google.com/ in Internet Explorer I get the following error:
No site configured at this address
Cutting and pasting the exact ...
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2answers
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Remove all web sites data
Does the "Remove all websites data" in Preferences → Privacy on Safari 5.1.7 remove them only from Safari or all other browsers installed on the computer?
I get a warning:
Are you sure you ...
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How can I locally cache pictures from a web-page so it loads faster?
I am, on a nearly daily basis, accessing my companies staff directory that is hosted on our wiki. The "problem" (and I use the term loosely) is that when I load the page everybody has a picture ...
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How can I get Firefox to open a cached version of a page in new tabs?
At work, we use a bug-tracking system to keep track of what work needs to be done. I can set the new tab page to be a list of all of my bugs, however this page loads slowly, as the site queries a ...
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Clearing cache frequently in Chrome
I am doing a project using Sencha extjs 4.1.1a. The Web Server I am using is Apache (XAMPP Control panel 3.1.0.3.1.0).
I kept the project file in htdocs folder.
Now whenever I am changing the code ...
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Disabling cache selectively for development on Chrome
Is there any way to disable the cache on Google Chrome for certain aspects only, in such a way that images for instance remain cached but markup/js/css don't?
I'm working on a rather graphic ...
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How does client - web server mechanism of check for latest modified date work?
I know that a web browser check if a resource is modified/expired within a given timestamp to decide if downloading such resource or not.
So, here come two questions:
i) generally speaking how ...
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Map a URL to a local file in Windows
Is there a way to map a URL to a local file so that when IE sends a request for that URL it gets the content from a local file?
For example: http://www.example.com/file.zip ---> C:\file.zip
I'm ...
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Why does Firefox fetch the page when I hit the back button?
Isn't Firefox supposed to display a cached version of the page when I use the back button? Is there something I can to do prevent Firefox from doing this ?
I understand it makes less sense nowadays ...
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Can content be recovered from Chrome's cache? [closed]
I've been working on a draft post in Blogger for the last few weeks. I was just finishing it, and decided to do a spell check. Halfway through the spell check (in Chrome) I used CTRL+Z to undo a ...
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One website won't refresh
I have a problem with only one website that won't refresh no matter what I do. I've tried deleting cache, cookies etc.
I guess something is wrong with my computer because everyone else sees the ...
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Prevent IE from cleaning cache on Back
I'm using cache-control 'no cache'. In other browsers when I click back button they do not clear cache, they load previous page and fill entered data back. But IE just clears cache and reloads ...
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CCleaner cannot clean the cache and cookies for Metro UI Browsers
I have CCleaner Professional v 3.24.1850 installed on my Windows 8 laptop. Whenever I run the cleaner, it clears the cache, cookies, history, etc., but only for Desktop browsers. Nothing happens to ...
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How to find video in Firefox cache?
I'm trying to find youtube video (just watched) in Firefox cache folder, but I cant find the folder.
win xp sp3
Firefox 16.1
I tried
C:\Documents and Settings\eDIN\Local Settings\Application ...
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Firefox, reload without cache check
It looks like a popular question but it's just the opposite.
When I visit a site in Firefox 15 I have two different behaviours when:
Pressing enter in the address bar
Pressing F5 or the refresh ...
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Firefox: always force reload for some url
Is it possible, and if so how do I achieve it, that firefox automatically force-reloads (no cache) some urls/domains? For example say I never want to load google.com from cache. Can I set it so that ...
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What is the default value for Empty Temporary Internet Files when browser is closed in IE8?
We have four different machines that all have "Empty Temporary Internet Files when browser is closed" set to true (checked) in IE8's Internet Options (located under the Security section in the ...
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Why is Firefox's cache empty after an improper shutdown?
I often rely on Firefox's cache to reopen pages I've previously visited while offline and more quickly load webpages. However, when Firefox is improperly terminated (such as by a hard computer ...
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Clear 301-redirect cache in Firefox
Is it possible to clear only 301-redirects from firefox's cache? CTRL+F5 doesn't do the job since you just reload the target without caching but do not clear the cached redirect.
An option to disable ...
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Subverting Flash Headers
I want complete control over browser cache, but I cannot find any plug-in for any browser that restores cache control to the user.
Basically, I would like for my browser to ignore Cache Control ...
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Caching in modern browsers sucks, why and how to fix? [closed]
One thing I've noticed where all modern browsers fall short is caching. I remember years ago in Internet Explorer 5 - a browser that was the horrors by todays standards! - that I could select ...
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Unable to find videos cache for youtube videos in chrome
I have watched a video on youtube, I didn't close the browser window and it is buffered. I can watch that video anytime, without connecting to internet, as it is completely buffered.
But I am not able ...
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How to disable caching in Internet Explorer 9?
How can i disable caching in Internet Explorer 9?
i browse to a page, and click a link. When i click Back, i need the browser to always re-fetch the page from the web-site.
i've tried disabling ...
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How do I cache slow webpages for longer?
I regularly access web pages which rarely change, but which load slowly. They are pages of notes on an internal company wiki (confluence).
Is there a plugin for Chrome or Firefox which will allow me ...
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548 views
Is there a way to prevent Chrome from caching/archiving so much data?
I find Chrome's cache to be too cumbersome, and the browser relies heavily upon its huge history in order to improve performance, but that seems to have less of an effect if your hard drive is not an ...
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Google Chrome cache Issue in Windows 7 over multiple systems
I am using Chrome with two systems both running on Windows 7 64-bit. I configured both instances of Chrome with my Google account, and everything worked perfectly.
Lately however I am having a hard ...
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2answers
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Where is the Firefox Cache?
With all the big changes with Firefox recently, all the info about their cache location has become outdated. Or has Firefox changed so much that this question is moot?
Running mac osx 10.6.8 (Snow ...
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How do I fix an Internet “Super Cache” on my Computer?
I have at least one website that I know for certain is "super cached" (or something that causes a similar behavior) on my computer and I have no idea how to clear it out. I will explain the problem ...
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Chrome developer tools - network panel gaps
In the Chrome developer tools, under the network tab, I'm curious to know what is happening during the gaps. If you look at my image below, I have highlighted in orange the areas where these gaps ...
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How/Where does Firefox 12.0 on Mac OS X store uri maps?
I have a site that started behaving strangely yesterday in Firefox 12.0.
When clicking on a link /home/write-journal, the actual request is sent to a different URI /join.
In Safari & Chrome this ...
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Latency of seeking a file on a disk
I have a question regarding the latency of seek times for hard drives and size of files . I was at one point considering trying to increase the cache size of my web browser to try and allow for ...
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Force Firefox to cache a URL for a specific period of time
One of the companies I work with has a web app hosted over a slow DSL line. There is something amiss with the configuration of their server or version of software they are using which means that every ...
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Firefox not using cache?
Some times I have issues with the wireless connection where I live. That issue is irrelevant to this (there are two IT departments managing this thing; there's nothing I can do about it). Most of ...
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Camino or Safari Cache Location
I'd like to know where the default Java applet cache location is for either Safari or Camino on a Mac, because I'm trying to replace the minecraft.jar for classic with a survival test jar I got off ...
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How does firefox decide which cache to put a component in
If you type:
about:cache
into the firefox addressbar, you see some very interesting information about what is cached. Some files go into the memory cache and some into the disk cache. How does ...
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Web browser without HDD access
I'm wondering if there is a way to disable all browsing-related drive access (history, cookie jar, disk caches) in either Firefox or Google Chromium (Linux).
Basically, I'm running this on a laptop, ...
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Keystroke to reload a page without cache in Chrome for OS X
According to the Chrome Docs, the Ctrl/Shift+F5 keystroke is only supported on Windows.
Is there any keystroke I can do to fully reload a page without the cache on Chrome for Mac?
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What is Chrome default cache size limit?
What is Chrome default cache size limit? Where it can be found?
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What settings can I change in virtualized XP and W7 to minimise unnecessary image file differential size
I have several virtualized instances of XP and W7 on KVM, and each week I take an LVM snapshot of the qcow2 file and rsync it to a remote site. I'd like to reduce my bandwidth usage if possible - what ...
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How do I locate the offline file data in firefox
I used to locate the file data by going to cache directory, which I would locate by typing about:cache in the firefox address bar. I can still navigate to this page but the file structure inside his ...
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Internet Explorer DNS cache location
It is known that IE has its own DNS cache. I want to clear it at times. I know that I can do it by clearing browsing history in IE settings. But I'm looking for automatic method, so the location in ...
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Why doesn't the youtube videos save in web cache for later viewing? [closed]
I am not asking how to save or download the videos from youtube or facebook. All, I need to know is why aren't they cached in browser or system memories. Even if the default size for browser use is ...
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How Can I Force Google Chrome To Cache Images?
There's a website I use every day, and there are lots of large images on it (uploaded by my designers).
Every time I go to a page, the images get downloaded again, and it takes forever. How can I ...
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Is there a Chrome version of IE's “Every time I visit the webpage”?
In IE, there are caching options like the following image - "Every time I visit the webpage"
Is there an equivalent setting Chrome?
I want to avoid CTRL + F5.
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IE 8 + cache clearing… IE8 will not load newer versions of a .jpg file
I have put
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="120"><!-- Should update every 120 seconds-->
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"><!-- prevent caching -->
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What happens if I visit a site that supports HSTS and I clear the cookies, cache, etc from my browser?
Would this mean that I could potentially be susceptible to a man in the middle attack? Would the browser need to cache this information again?
