Questions tagged [browser-cache]
For questions about web browsers caching data on the local machine.
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How can I make Chrome stop caching redirects?
I am working on a web application that is using redirects (for pretty URLs).
I am trying to debug logic in the way the redirects are working. However Google Chrome keeps remembering the redirects and ...
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How to reload the page by emptying cache in Google Chrome?
I don't know 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 can't seem to cache refresh my pages. In ...
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How can I clear a single site from the cache in Firefox?
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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Clear cache for specific domain name in chrome
I want to clear the cache for a specific domain name in Chrome. Is there an extension or other method that I can use to do this?
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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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How to recover form information for a webpage in Firefox
I filled out a lengthy form on a webpage which rejected my submission due to a server error. I can't seem to recover the form input.
Is there any way in Firefox to look into caches, history, etc. to ...
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Can I disable the cache in Chrome for specific hosts?
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 ...
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How to turn off the Firefox cache?
I'm using Firefox 3.5.2. For some reason, it has cached a page and won't update. For example, I added an alert('test'); statement to some JavaScript code which is loaded on the page, but Firefox doesn'...
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Where has chrome://cache been moved to?
In the past it was possible to browse the browser cache by visiting chrome://cache/ but it seems to have been (re)moved?
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Location of Chrome cache on Mac OS X
After a bit of Googling, I'm able to find the location of Chrome cached files on Windows but not on OS X. Would anyone know what the location is for Mac?
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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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How to disable browser cache in Chrome
I don't even use this browser normally, just for testing purposes, and the directory size of "Chrome" in "AppData\Local\Google" is like 500 MB.
Is there a way I can disable page cache in Chrome?
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Is there a way to search the text of my browsing history in Firefox?
I often find myself in the situation where I know I saw something in a web page recently, but don't remember where. I would therefore like to be able to do a full-text search of the contents of my ...
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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 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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How can I always force a 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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How to view Chrome's cached web page?
I visited a webpage but now the webpage has been removed or the server is down. I assume that Chrome has cached a version of this webpage. If so, how can I view this webpage?
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How can I force Safari to perform a full page reload, without using the mouse?
I'm using Safari to preview web pages as I develop them on my local server. I've got 'Disable Caches' checked in the Develop menu. And yet Safari is still working from a cached version of a stylesheet ...
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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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How to clear cached redirects in Chrome
How do you clear cached redirects in Chrome?
I changed the DNS for a domain name and when I go to mydomain.com. Even though ping mydomain.com now shows it resolves to the correct IP, if I type in "...
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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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Firefox says "server not found" because it's adding WWW. How do I stop this?
This is very frustrating.
I have been accessing servername.local on Firefox. That's its URL. No www.
At some time, servername.local ceased to be available and I got an error message: "Server not ...
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How can I cache all pages I visit with Firefox?
Q: How can I cache all pages I visit in a given session with Firefox?
I frequently go to study with my laptop at a library where I don't have internet access (no login). I usually research somethings ...
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How do I force Chrome to load a fresh copy of a page?
I am developing a new website, and I originally had a Url redirect on the domain that took users to an existing site in order to avoid a parked domain notice showing up. When it came to put the first ...
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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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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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Caching YouTube videos across loads
Is there a way to force the browser to cache loaded YouTube videos across page loads?
In other words, if you refresh some video page in which the video already started loading (or is fully loaded), ...
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Auto save all visited pages in Firefox [closed]
I searched for this on Google, but I could not find it. So is there any add-on which automatically saves all the pages I visit in some cache, so that I can access them in offline mode also?
I am ...
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How can I force Firefox to revalidate for a specific site?
Basically, I would like Firefox to behave as if all responses from example.com carried the "Cache-Control: no-cache" header. I have searched the Mozilla addons site and there is a boatload of hits for ...
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Set Firefox to NEVER use Cache?
Can I set Firefox to never use cache?
This is for development, to be sure I am always looking at my latest work. (I might ask the same type of question for Eclipse/Tomcat too. Building a webapp with ...
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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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cache can't be cleared for a specific site in Firefox
My firefox browser just can't clear out the cache of a specific site: http://www.foundationdrillandtool.com/, the site shows no menu in my Firefox but OK in other browsers and also OK for other users ...
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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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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 "File/...
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How can I force Firefox to revalidate for a specific site?
Basically, I would like Firefox to behave as if all responses from example.com carried the Cache-Control: no-cache header.
I have searched the Mozilla addons site and there is a boatload of hits for ...
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Firefox, saving all images from every page so that they are retrievable?
I'm having a bit of trouble finding a way to do this, I know that firefox saves images to a cache file but it is in a gzip archive file that I am unable to unzip (just gives error when I try, I'm ...
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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 ...