Manual Reload Of Cache In Mac Chrome

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I changed my gravatar last night, and I can see the new one in Firefox after a Ctrl+F5 refresh, but Chrome seems to be stubbornly hanging on to the old Gravatar. I guess I could manually clear out the cache, but if there is a keyboard command to do it I'd like to know what it is (since it would be helpful for web development too). Mar 06, 2015  Hold down Ctrl and click the Reload button. Or, Hold down Ctrl and press F5. Just open the Chrome Dev Tools by pressing F12. Once the chrome dev tools are open, just right click on the refresh button and a menu will drop down. This menu gives you the option of doing a hard refresh, or even clearing the cache and do a hard refresh automatically.

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Jan 17, 2018  Disable Cache, Then With Dev Console Still Open Right Click Refresh Empty Cache and Hard Reload; Disable Cache, Then With Dev Console Still Open Ctrl + F5; Chrome Settings Manually Delete All Cache From Beginning Of Time, Then Ctrl + F5; Basically everything listed here: Chrome WON'T clear cache. Ctrl + F5 doesn't seem to work either.

Like the title says, Google Chrome refuses to load newer versions of a Javascript file.

I've tried:

  • Ctrl + F5
  • Dev Console > Network Tab > Disable Cache
  • Disable Cache, Then With Dev Console Still Open Right Click Refresh > Empty Cache and Hard Reload
  • Disable Cache, Then With Dev Console Still Open Ctrl + F5
  • Chrome Settings > Manually Delete All Cache From Beginning Of Time, Then Ctrl + F5

Basically everything listed here: Chrome WON'T clear cache... ctrl + F5 doesn't seem to work either

None of this worked. The sources panel still shows that the old Javascript file was being loaded. The absolutely mind-boggling thing is that when I right click the file in the sources panel and then select open in new tab, the updated file opens in a new tab, but then refreshing the page still brings up the old file in the sources panel of dev console.

The only thing that has gotten Chrome to work for me is to manually append ? and a random number at the end of the file name. That seems to force Chrome to actually load the new file. As of now, I've been using PHP to add a

in order to get anything to load correctly in Chrome, but this seems like a terrible solution.

My question is, How do I get Chrome to actually reload Javascript files from the server instead of the cache?

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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 Firefox, I know it to be Shift+Refresh.

In Chrome, I've tried Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Refresh, Alt+Refresh, Shift+Refresh but none of them work.


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Push F12 or Ctrl+Shift+J to 'Open Developer Tools' on Windows (On Mac: Cmd+Opt+I) then you can right click on the refresh icon and select 'Empty Cache and Hard Reload'

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12633425/chrome-browser-reload-options-new-feature

The documentation says:

  • For Windows and Linux:Shift+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R
    • (screenshot):
  • For Mac: Cmd+Shft+R):

Reloads your current page, ignoring cached content.

Although some have reported this works, others have said it does not work correctly

Your other options are:

  1. JavaScript Console

    The JavaScript Console is available in two modes within Chrome DevTools: the primary Console tab, or as a split-view you can display while on another tab (such as Elements or Sources).

    To open the Console tab, do one of the following:

    Use the keyboard shortcut Command - Option - J (Mac) or Control -Shift -J (Windows/Linux).Select View > Developer > JavaScript Console.

    F12 doesn't appear to be mentioned here but will open this console on Windows as well.

  2. Incognito window

    Another interesting option is to open a new incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+N On Mac: ⌘ + Shift + N.). This window won't use any stored cookies, cached content, or DNS resolutions, so you can test stuff in it without slowing your normal browsing down by dumping the cache. This is what I almost always do instead of clearing the cache. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464

  3. Disable cache

    Open Chrome Developer Tools (F12, Mac: ⌘+⌥+I). Click the settings icon (a gear in the bottom right corner). Check 'Disable cache'. Now when you browse with your Developer tools open caching is disabled.

  4. Click&Clean

    Finally there is also the option of the Click&Clean extension


Another interesting option is to open a new incognito window (Ctrl+Shift+N). This window won't use any stored cookies, cached content, or dns resolutions, so you can test stuff in it without slowing your normal browsing down by dumping the cache. This is what I almost always do instead of clearing the cache.


According to documentation, Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 should work.Maybe you have a proxy configured on IE & chrome, which is caching your page?


I've had problems with Chrome refreshing in spite of using shift+F5 or ⌘+shift+r.

What I've found works though pretty brutish is to hold down ⌘+shift+r for a few seconds so that the browser makes multiple attempts to refresh the Java cache and fails. Then the next time it successfully retrieve JS from the server.


Chrome sucks for this. Sometimes I can get Shift+F5 to work but not always. My solution for the moment is to use the 'Click & Clean' extension. It's ugly but works every time so I'd recommend that for now.


A workaround is hitting reload very quickly twice in a row.


Open Chrome Developer Tools (F12 or Ctrl+Shift+I or Menu/Tools/Developer Tools). Click the settings icon (a gear in the bottom right corner). Check 'Disable cache'. Now when you browse with your Developer tools open caching is disabled.

Manual


You can right click, go Inspect Element under the Resources or Application (in newer versions) tab collapse Cookies right click on domain name and click Clear.


it could simply be your keyboard settings, check if you have the functions keys enabled or disabled, with my logitech keybaord it is the FMode key, similar to NumLock!


  1. Click the Tools menu. (the wrench in the upper-right corner)

  2. Select Options.

  3. Click the Under the Hood tab.

  4. Click Clear browsing data…

  5. Check the boxes for the types of information you wish to delete.

    • Clear browsing history
    • Clear download history
    • Empty the cache
    • Delete cookies
    • Clear saved passwords

You can also choose the period of time you wish to delete cached information using the Clear data from this period dropdown menu.

  1. Click Clear Browsing Data when ready.

Manual Reload Of Cache In Mac Chrome Windows 10

On WindowsCtrl + F5 for hard reload, and just F5 for reload.

On Mac⇧ + ⌘ + R for hard reload and ⌘ + R for reload.

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hard reload clears the stored cache for that page.

If you're interested in just testing stuff out, go incognito. You can just close this window to clear all the temporary cache and history.

On Windows: Ctrl+Shift+N

On Mac: ⌘ + Shift + N

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