If you are a web designer or developer, one of the issues you probably face on a daily basis is browser cache. For those who are unaware of this issue, your browser - whether it be Firefox or Internet Explorer - captures all web pages and images when you browse and saves them in the browser cache. This is so that next time you go to a website, you can quickly access the saved files in your cache rather than re-download the image or related content.This presents an issue for web designers when they make a change to a website, when their own browser uses the cached files rather than downloading the new version off the server. What web designers need is an easy way to empty their cache. We have two suggestions for this type of functionality:
- For Firefox, check out the Clear Cache add-on. This fantastic extension will add a broom logo to your Firefox toolbar that will instantly clear your cache when you click it.
- For Internet Explorer, we suggest you look at CachePal. Installing this will give you one-click access to the cache clearing functionality.
[via NoHeat]
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2-02-2008 @ 1:24PM
yhancik said...
I might be wrong, but doesn't CTRL-F5 clear the cache (on windows) ?
Now if you're not fond on keyboard shortcuts, that might indeed be convenient.
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2-02-2008 @ 2:02PM
benwinden said...
Cache Status is also a fantastic Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1881. This extension not only monitors your cache statistics for both memory and disk devices. You can also clear your cache by right-clicking on the statusbar panel and selecting the right option.
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2-02-2008 @ 10:22PM
Marshall said...
"yhancik," according to the MS documentation, Ctrl+F5 does the following: "Refresh the current Web page, even if the time stamp for the Web version and your locally stored version are the same."
This is not the same as clearing the cache. Clearing the cache will remove javascript and CSS files, which would normally usually not be reloaded when the page is refreshed (if they are already in the cache).
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2-03-2008 @ 9:38AM
ouj said...
In Opera select "Tools"->"Delete private data".
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