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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 that's linked from the HTML file being displayed.

I can sometimes override this by Option-clicking the reload button in the location bar, but I want to refresh the page automatically when I save the CSS file. At the moment I'm doing it using an AppleScript that's bound to the Save action in my text editor. I could see using Keyboard Maestro instead. But I need some consistent way to force Safari to do a full reload from the keyboard.

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  • Do you have any extensions installed. Had this problem once with Adblock... It messed up one page in particular, thought it was a stylesheet problem too, tried everything... but it was Adblock messing with it.
    – unom
    Commented Jan 8, 2014 at 22:08

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Enable the Develop menu from Safari menu - Preferences - Advanced.

On Safari version 11.1 and above :

CMD+OPTION+R reloads the page ignoring cache.

On Safari version 9 and above :

CMD+SHIFT+R reloads the page ignoring cache.

Emptying caches seems not to reload the stylesheets everytimes…

On Safari below version 9 :

Empty cache and then reload so full "hot key" would be :

CMD+OPTION+E

Then

CMD+R to refresh the page

Of course probably turning opening and closing a New Private Windowfrom the File would also work but…

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  • that didn't work for me on Safari 8
    – Brian Tingle
    Commented Sep 11, 2015 at 5:49
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    Safari version 9.1.1 does not reload the page with Cmd-Shift-R. I have "Show Develop in menu bar" enabled.
    – Jason
    Commented Jun 21, 2016 at 13:46
  • cmd+shift+R didn't work for me in 9.1.3 either
    – sfletche
    Commented Oct 13, 2016 at 17:07
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    Cmd+Shift+R didn't work in Version 10.0.1 (11602.2.14.0.7).
    – Snowcrash
    Commented Feb 14, 2017 at 10:59
  • Checkout @sayan's answer below for a working shortcut
    – Vlad
    Commented May 17, 2018 at 14:35
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The shortcut has now changed to OPTION + CMD + R. (Safari 11.1)

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    Works perfectly!
    – kerrin
    Commented Apr 25, 2018 at 4:23
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There is an option in the menubar Develop->Disable Caches. This is true for Safari 5.1. I'm not sure for the rest.

Screenshot

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    Please read the second sentence of my question again.
    – Gabe
    Commented Jul 28, 2011 at 17:06
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    Oops, I'm sorry :)
    – mist
    Commented Jul 29, 2011 at 7:01
  • I think the keyboard maestro method be to activate the “disable caches” menu bar item, reload the page, then deactivate it.
    – BallpointBen
    Commented Aug 23, 2023 at 4:42
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Turn on Private mode and refresh the page. It won't get it from the cache in private mode.

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Hard refresh was removed as a keyboard shortcut in Safari 5. The old command for that was ⌘+SHIFT+R

CTRL+F5 May work but I can't test here.

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  • Yes, that's how to refresh the page, but it doesn't bypass the cache.
    – Gabe
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 16:02
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    Control-F5 just selects the location bar, like Command-L.
    – Gabe
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 16:45
  • Then it's been disabled completely. I found a number of threads complaining about it. There is an extension that I have NOT tested here: twitter.com/siracusa/status/15683201068 that may do what you want.
    – JNK
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 16:47
  • No, that extension just creates a button in the toolbar (which I guess some people prefer to the icon in the location bar). I also found a lot of threads complaining about it—i was wondering if someone on here had any special knowledge.
    – Gabe
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 19:37
  • Sorry! :( <15chars>
    – JNK
    Commented Sep 9, 2010 at 19:47
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Workaround: in the develop menu, select "start debugging javascript" and it must reload the code properly. You can then stop debugging... I know it's not a clean solution and I'm not sure if it works always or in all versions, but it's working for me now.

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I stumble upon this question and apparently the current answers do not work.

Issue is currently CMD+ALT+R opens the Responsive design.

However if the inspector is open via CMD+ALT+I, then the same shortcut does a clean refresh.

Current Safari Version: 12.1.2

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CMD+L focus on the address bar SHIFT+ALT+ENTER full reload for the current address

It seems to work on Safari 9

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  • And how does one click without a mouse?
    – qasdfdsaq
    Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 12:51
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    @qasdfdsaq My bad, edited the question.
    – rraallvv
    Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 13:00
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Go to Safari's preferences and tick "Show develop menu". In the develop menu, click disable Caches.

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    Please read the second sentence of my question.
    – Gabe
    Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 11:55

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