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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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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 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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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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Importing old Chrome profile and all cache gets erased

I have backed up an archived an old Chrome profile of mine - with all the cache and some bookmarks. Just FYI on Windows Chrome profiles exist under: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data ...
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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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How to clear Chrome DNS cache now after they changed it?

They seem to have changed the chrome://net-internals page and it doesn't seem to work anymore. I have tried flushing the socket pool too. It works in incognito.
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how to download very large files in chrome

On Windows 7 running Chrome browser, downloading a 3.2TB file to a USB drive say F:\big-files\ with 3.5TB free fails because "Disk Full". It appears that Chrome uses a temporary folder for ...
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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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Reload JavaScript/CSS Resources Without reloading HTML

I am a web developer and refresh the page a lot in order to see what effects my changes to css and JavaScript have. On pages with longer load times (ie: 2 - 5 seconds) it is a hassle. I am wondering ...
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Is there a way to view the Chrome DNS cache?

Just like in Windows we can view the dns cache by executing ipconfig /displaydns, is there a way to view the DNS cache of Chrome?. In chrome://net-internals/#dns? We can see the button "Clear ...
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Change Chrome's Default Cache Location

Here's the issue ... I have an ASUS gaming laptop and, for whatever reason, I've had the SSD drive fail on me three times. I want as much "churn" off this drive as possible (just to be safe), and ...
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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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Moving the Google Chrome cache directory onto RAM disk automatically at boot in Linux

OS: Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 64-bit. I know how to create a RAM disk (tmpfs), actually I have it mounted in /etc/fstab like so: none /ramdisk tmpfs size=2G,mode=0777 0 0 As you can see,...
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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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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 to auto reload a tab in Chrome with full cache purge: "Clear site data" from dev tools

I use a third party site that display graphs. I need this page to be reloaded to have up to date graphs (and the site does not show it's custom animation for loading data). But after refreshing, even ...
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browser-cache refresh through network

We currently have "web-based" software running on several PC's in our network. A problem we have run in a few times is that whenever the software is updated each PC has to refresh it's ...
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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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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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Clear (or bypass) cache on Chromium startup

How to clear the Chromium cache on startup, via Chrome command-line arguments? I have already read Clear Chrome's cache via CLI but the goal is slightly different. I need Chromium (embedded) to ...
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Set maximum Flash cache size for Chrome/Chromium/YandexBrowser (Pepper Data\Shockware Flash)

Cleaning up the disk, I found out that the folder c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash has grown to 22 GB (!) over time. (Yandex ...
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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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Chrome page crashes "Aw, Snap" after loading too many elements in a page. Increasing the cache would fix the issue? [duplicate]

I am scrolling through a lot of elements in a web page. To be more specific, I am scrolling through a lot of Facebook profiles and I've noticed that after a while the page crashes saying "Aw, ...
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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 forget the contents of all Firefox tabs (releasing RAM), and refreashing a tab to re-access site when needed?

I want to run a game but my RAM is full and I can't close my Firefox windows due to needing them later for my workflow. So I'm wondering, is it possible to tell Firefox to simply forget every site it ...
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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 Data\...
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Slow loading issues in edge and brave browsers when iterating over sql resource

I have been trying to fix extremely slow loading on my site until I have just tested it in another browser (opera) and it pings! No wait whatsoever. However in Edge and Brave it hangs for minutes... I ...
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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 block websites without using host file

I'm just trying to create a basic program that allows users to input websites to be blocked but editing the host file does not work at all. I tried using all the links from here for sites like reddit/...
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DNS lookup fails in chrome only

Trying to access certain sites fails in Google Chrome only: ping goes through OK: nslookup is OK: Firefox loads the page OK Changing between WiFi and wired network has no effect Using one of ...
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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 ...
311 votes
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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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Want to delete Chrome history but retain data from one site only

I have some mystery issue with something in my Chrome data that affects certain sites. It only affects Chrome and one profile so I have narrowed it down to there. I get an error like this: "...
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Cloudflare Workers not respecting Caching Origin Headers

I've written a Cloudflare Worker which uses Cloudflare Images. By default, Cloudflare Workers are sending "14400" as a Max-age value for caching purpose. I'd like to use "31536000" ...
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How do I fully clear Firefox's cache of CSS and JavaScript files?

I work on a website at my work. The issue is that if I visit the site, which uses the cached versions of the CSS and JavaScript files, and then upload an updated copy of a CSS/JavaScript file, Firefox ...
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Clear cached URL redirects from Safari and Firefox

I have a NodeJS server and set up a redirect for https://emocoes.org/ukraine to https://emocoes.org/ucrania. The redirects seem set up correctly: $ wget https://emocoes.org/ukraine 2>&1 | grep ...
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How to start firefox in offline mode from a command line?

I would like to start Firefox with a selected profile (using --new-instance -P profileName flags), but in offline mode. How can I accomplish that when there's no --offline parameter or anything ...
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1 answer
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Is it safe to delete Chrome's Service Worker CacheStorage?

I'm using Chrome 98 on macOS and in the Default profile of Chrome, and the cache used by Service Workers (~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Service Worker/CacheStorage) is over 2GB. ...
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Cache proxy to store media

I want to set up a caching proxy that will store all the content (i.e. pics, videos, etc...) of the browsers that use the proxy. I've managed to set up a squid proxy server but couldn't find mp4 files ...
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Decode Google Chrome cache file OSX

How can I decode the Google Chrome cache files located in /Users/[USER]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Profile [NUM]/Cache named like 0a0b447d0216bd30_0 and looking like: 0\r�m����8��https://...
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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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Clear cache for a site in different browsers

I need to test a site in different browsers. Clearing browser cache deletes cache for all sites. How to clear or reset cache for a particular site in different browsers?
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How to clear some of the search cache in Google Chrome

When you bookmark or visit a specific site, Chrome will start suggesting it when you start typing letters that that site URL starts with e.g. I often visited, or bookmarked: https://coolsite.com/some-...
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Restore closed webpage at that time

I want to find an order number through the browser history. The browser history has the full link for the page when the order was finished, but it is no longer valid in the website. Is there any way ...
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Youtube screen has shrunk

I'm using the Torch browser because my previously-used Firefox had some issues with Youtube; Youtube freezes randomly. Then I switched to Torch and so far it worked without a hassle. But now, today I ...
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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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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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Automatic website caching

For anyone familiar with HTTrack, this program (among others) would seem to potentially be the start of a way to cache websites separate and more durably from the rather limited scope of a browser's ...
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Can Firefox's 'shader-cache' folders contain private data?

Recent versions of Firefox create a shader-cache folder within each Firefox profile. Some privacy applications automatically delete this folder as part of their cleanup routines. Can Firefox's shader-...

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