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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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Chrome browser caching [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to force refresh without cache in Google Chrome? I do a lot of development on my local machine and would like to start using Chrome, however I cannot seem to do a hard-...
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My Ancestry bookmark icon just changed to a red ball f5. How do I change it back to the original default icon? [duplicate]

Somehow every bookmark associated with Ancestry has been changed to a red ball with f5 inside of it. I can't find this Favicon file/folder.
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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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Ctrl+F5 vs Ctrl+R (On Browsers)

Is there a difference between these two shortcuts on most browsers?
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How can I force Chrome to refresh a page, ignoring cached Flash files?

A couple other questions on superuser.com discuss the shortcut ctrl+F5 in Chrome. In theory, that shortcut should cause Chrome to refresh the current page while ignoring cached content. However, it ...
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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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How to do a hard refresh without first loading a page?

We all know a "Hard Refresh" (eg Ctrl+Shift+F5 or ⌘+Shift+R) will cause the browser to reload the current page (and other assets) from the server. But what if that page contains a redirect (either ...
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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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why does it take chrome two minutes to pick up that a domain has been specified/blocked in the hosts file, and can that time be decreased a lot?

I'm specifying certain domains in my hosts file to block them. So redirecting a domain to 127.0.0.1 when i'm not running any web server on 127.0.0.1 will block that domain. why does it take chrome two ...
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How does ISP know when user force reloads the browser?

Main question: my ISP compresses HTML and images, unless I press Ctrl + Shift + R on Chrome (and Firefox). So, how does the ISP know that I forced a refresh? Full story: I recently switched to ...
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