Questions tagged [browser-cache]
For questions about web browsers caching data on the local machine.
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Moving Chrome cache folder?
I was wondering if moving the cache folder in chrome(Win7x64) to a ramdisk drive will improve the performance of cached flash player files/games?
If so, What would be the easiest way to do this? I'm ...
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Browsing cached pages with no internet connection [duplicate]
Back in the early days of the Internet, when 56K modems were considered state-of-the-art, when the modem was disconnected I could still freely browse the pages that I recently visited because they ...
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Chrome, Firefox, and the mistery cache
I am developing a website. It's just few lines of html. No phg, nothing fancy, very simple.
When I upload my file (Core ftp), the updates don't show on Chrome. I hard reloaded it 1000 times. F5, Ctrl ...
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Firefox having trouble loading websites at start up
When i start up Firefox, I try to get into amazon.com or ebay.com and the loading is just unbearable, it takes half a minute to load both of them (basically it is the same on any big site with a lot ...
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Accidentally deleted a .css file - Which recovery methods shall I try?
This is a bit of a disaster, as it's a 1000+ line CSS file I wrote over a few days for a client. Deadline is tomorrow.
I deleted it from a network path that doesn't go into recycle bins.
The ...
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Reset Midori History Database
After reinstalling my system but maintaining my home partition, whenever I launch Midori, I get a pop-up saying
The history couldn't be loaded: attached databases must use the same text encoding as ...
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Internet Explorer clearing browser history mid-session, causing the back and forward buttons to be greyed out
Recently we've had a problem with some of our users; it seems as though IE is clearing it's browser history, forcing the back and forward buttons to not function (both greyed out for the rest of the ...
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Firefox caching a site even after clearing the site's cache?
I think I'm suffering from a caching problem for a site. An example is http://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Android_%28Command_Line%29. The screen capture below shows the problem with an image on the right ...
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Can I ask Google Chrome to stop caching specific websites?
I want Google Chrome to stop caching my localhost since I change its files so often. How do I do this?
I see it can be done while opening the dev tools here: Clear cache for specific domain name in ...
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autocomplete and cache in Firefox
I am trying to understand if there is any difference between browser (in my case Firefox) cache and the place where 'autocomplete' data for an HTML form is stored in the browser. Unified storage for ...
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Firefox Clearing Cache - Ctrl + F5 doesn't work randomly
Running Firefox 31, Windows 7:
I was running into a bug on a website that I'm testing, where some things that did exist but do not anymore, were still showing up. I tried clearing the cache by ...
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Where's the location of incognito Chrome cached files for Mavericks?
Just wondering the location of the cached files for incognito mode.. I know regularly it's in /users/{$user}/Library/caches/google...etc, but for incognito mode I have no idea where they are stored. I ...
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Manually add video file to Chrome cache
This might be a bit of an odd question considering most people want to do the opposite (i.e, save a video file to disk from cache), but I'm using CyTube (http://cytu.be/) to simulwatch shows with my ...
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Why do I keep getting redirected to "/cgi-bin/redirect.ha", when using AT&T U-Verse?
When browsing the web, I occasionally get redirected to "/cgi-bin/redirect.ha". Closing the browser or flushing the cache seems to fix it sometimes, but not always. Sometimes I'll see from Google:
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How to add resources to firefox cache database manually?
My ISP blocks websites from time to time. Recently I cannot access https powered sites.
Firefox cannot load https://ajax.googleapis.com/.../jquery.min.js ...
But I can still access http://ajax....
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How is web form content encoded in Safari's cache?
A friend of mine just accidentally navigated off a web page where she entered a rather lengthy text into a web form. When navigating back to the page, the text was lost.
(Spoiler: The page had an ...
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In which scenarios will Google Chrome clear its cache itself, not by user request?
For example, will low disk space cause Chrome to clear the cache? Or will it simply stop caching new files, or maybe clear the files least recently used?
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Where is Google's file cache on OSX?
I opened a PDF the other day in Chrome from a URL. I can view the entire PDF in chrome, but can't save it, as when I do, I get a server error--as the URL the PDF was from is no longer working.
It ...
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Flush Chrome and Firefox DNS cache from command line?
Occasionally, I need to do a scorched Earth cleansing of my local DNS cachi. The most common scenario for this was that I was using OpenDNS, and when a name would fail to resolve (it was a hostname ...
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How to add a cache file to browsers like Chrome/Firefox/etc.?
For example, there is a website hosting a Shockwave Flash app which is restricted to be used on that specific site. However, the network of the site is poor so that loading the entire .swf from the ...
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How to flush DNS cache in Firefox
Strange issue... whenever I try to access http://docs.python.org/ from Firefox on Win 7, I get redirected to http://docs.python.org/old_dns.txt which says:
You need to update your DNS records for ...
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How to force firefox to use the cache?
I have firefox 27 on windows.
I browse a lot of picture boards with a slow bandwidth so it is very handy not to load the images each time I click on a thread already viewed.
Iron does use the cache ...
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Good size for internet cache [closed]
I have heard that increasing the cache size makes web browsing faster, but also slows down your computer to an extent. What cache size would allow me to get the best of both worlds?
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What is the fastest way to clear cache and cookies in Google Chrome?
The standard way (hamburger icon>Tools>Clear browsing data>Confirm) is slow, especially when you have to clear frequently during development. Currently, I hit F12 to bring up the Console, go to the ...
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Google Chrome - Clear Cache for Specific Website
I recently created a free web hosting account on x10Hosting. Let's use www.example.x10host.com as my example domain. Before signing up for the domain, I visited the domain to see if it was available. ...
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Firefox cache lost when it crashes
I'm usually in a slow internet connection, and everytime Firefox isn't closed correctly, I kind of lose part of my cache. When I open it again, I see pages start loading everything, including images ...
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Monitor Web-Surfing (Browsing History) Remotely and Silently [closed]
I want to know what websites are visited on one of my family's computers.
The user of that laptop can browse the Internet incognito (now cache, no history like in Google Chrome' incognito mode).
I ...
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Does browser cache affect text content also?
From my observation browsers cache css and image files. If changes were made, you need to hit "force" refresh button if you want to see updated version. However I am not able to verify if browsers ...
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Access previous version of a visited webpage?
I opened a page in Firefox and came back hours later. I reloaded the page (to see if something new was added), but had to notice that something got deleted instead.
Is there a way to see the previous ...
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How can I clear images from IE cache?
I am having a problem clearing the cache for IE (11) when it comes to pictures. I have a site I need to test in regards to image loading times, but no matter what I do, it seems the images stay cached ...
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Why does Spotlight omit some files in my search result?
I'm trying to use Spotlight (Mountain Lion) to do a recursive search on a bunch of subfolders.
(It's actually the Firefox disk cache, and I'm pecking around for a few images, so I thought this would ...
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Is there a way to force caching of javascript / css with GET parameters?
There are some pages on the internet that I want to load as fast as possible, but caching of their dozens of javascript/css files is being thwarted by the presence of GET parameters on the resource ...
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How long does chrome & firefox cache a file if no "expires" or "max-age" tag is set?
I would like to know what the default max-age is of an image or css file, but can't seem to find it anywhere.
Someone suggested it was only 300 seconds, but that doesn't seem to be correct.
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Reload browser page (and resources) entirely from cache
I'm currently working remote on a specific web project. Their VPN connection is quite unreliable, so it can be difficult to refresh a page because the database lies on one of their local machines.
At ...
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Need to recover webpage cache after reloading it
I had a webpage open in Chrome, was reading a forum thread. I reloaded the page but found that the thread had been deleted.
Did I wipe the cached page when I reloaded it? Or could there be some way ...
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HDD Space used by Browser History
I never really clear my browsing history as I often look up at articles that I have read earlier. Today, I came across a post at lifehacker.com that asked how often I clear my browsing history.
So, ...
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Google Chrome Cache - Mac OS X 10.8.5
I'm having difficulty locating my Google Chrome Cache. I've searched and it says to go to ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome, however I don't have a Google folder in Caches.
Any idea where I might be ...
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Make Firefox cache a webpage so that I can view it without a reload after a restart
I want Firefox to be able to cache webpages such that I can read the pages later after a restart. I've tried setting the cache size to 350MB but it still doesn't work as intended. Opera seems to do it ...
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"This website is asking to store data on your computer for offline use"
Whenever I visit some websites using Firefox, I get the dialog below asking me to "store data on your computer for offline use".
It is displayed if I am using Firefox but not if I am using Chrome.
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Recovering Firefox cache?
How can I recover a page that has expired from the Firefox cache?
Long story short, I have a private server at localhost that I run. I had two pages (important essays I wrote) that I basically ...
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Storing browser history for personal analytics
I'm interested in personal analytics, and would like to find a robust way to aggregate and store my web browsing history in a format I can understand and manipulate. I mostly use Google Chrome.
For a ...
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When streaming a song, in what folder does the song get saved?
When streaming a song, the song is downloaded and placed into a temporary folder on the computer, that much I know. However, while streaming the media file – mostly from Pandora – I have been ...
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Disable cache for specific sites in Chrome [duplicate]
Is there a way to tell Chrome to disable caching for specific sites? I'm doing dev work, and I'd like to avoid caching localhost.
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Does Chrome reloadButton ignores the cache?
I am using Chrome and monitoring the http connections. I load a page and the response returned by the server contains
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Expires: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:51:22 GMT
Therefore, I ...
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What, within my web access, is caching web pages so aggressively?
Something along the path of my home internet access is caching web content aggressively, and maybe you can help tell me where it is.
Here is my example:
I made a very simple web page, consisting of ...
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Why are all links suddenly purple (visited)?
How do web browsers remember which links have been clicked (and thus, color them purple/differently)?
As of this week, all links in my Google searches have suddenly turned purple, as if they've all ...
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"Who" decides whether to use a webpage from cache or from the server?
When browsing to a website, "who" makes makes the choice of determining whether to pull a webpage from the local cache or from the server? Is it the browser? Web server? Webpage-specific coding?
How ...
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How can you tell when the browser is retrieving from a cache?
Is it possible to tell when a browser is retrieving a page from a cache?
I've thought that opening a new tab and directly browsing to the URL would make a fresh pull request from the server, but ...
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Change Google Chrome cache size on OS X
How can I change the cache size Google Chrome uses? ON OS X?
I've found countless posts how do to things on Windows but couldn't really figure out from that how to do things on os x.
Help will be ...
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How do I save a web page in Firefox - the saved version shows "view previous comments" again
I am trying to save a page with Firefox. It's a post on facebook, loaded on its own page. I clicked "view previous comments" so all comments are displayed. I save the page.
I then loaded the saved ...