If you or your website team are making changes to a website, it is important to clear the cache of your browsers in order to SEE these changes. You can temporarily bypass the cache, or clear the cache completely and you will be able to see new changes to your website.
A site that is a type of wiki has posted this information for your convenience:
CHROME
To clear the cache:
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- Go to the Tools menu (the wrench on the upper right of the browser) and click on Clear browsing data…
- Select the types of data you want to clear
- On the Clear data from this period:drop-down list, select one of the following:
- Everything to clear all the data you selected;
- Last day to clear the data only from the last day;
- Last week to clear the data only from the last week; or
- Last 4 weeks to clear the data only from the last 4 weeks.
INTERNET EXPLORER
To completely clear the cache:
- Click on ‘Tools’ and then ‘Internet Options’ and choose the ‘General’ tab.
- Click on “Delete…” under “Browsing history”.
In the ‘Temporary Internet files’ section, Click ‘Delete Files…’. You will then get a dialogue box asking if you want to delete just the temporary files, or all offline content. Choose the latter and click ‘OK’.
MOZILLA BROWSERS
To completely clear the cache:
- From the ‘Edit’ or ‘Tools’ menu, choose ‘Preferences’ or ‘Options’. Expand the ‘Advanced’ options and choose ‘Cache’ or ‘Privacy’. Click the button called ‘Clear Cache’.
- In newer versions of Mozilla Firefox, you can easily clear the cache, history and cookies:
Hold down the Control and Shift keys, and press Delete (or Del), then choose what you want to remove.
Or from the ‘Tools’ menu, select ‘Clear Private Data’.
SAFARI
To completely clear the cache:
- From the ‘Safari’ menu, choose ‘Empty Cache…’ or hold down the Option and Command keys and press E.
OPERA
To completely clear the cache:
- From the ‘Tools’ menu, choose ‘Preferences’. Expand the ‘Advanced’ options and choose ‘History’. Click the button called ‘Empty now’.
- Alternatively, you can easily clear the cache, history and cookies:
From the ‘Tools’ menu, choose ‘Delete private data’. Click ‘Details’, make sure that ‘Delete entire cache’ is selected, and then choose any other data you want to remove.
