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How can I do a Cache Refresh in Google Chrome?

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00:37 Accepted answer (Score 369)
03:31 Answer 2 (Score 65)
03:58 Answer 3 (Score 19)
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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/220179/h...

Accepted answer links:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1263...
[documentation]: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/an...
[image]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z62h6.png
[Chrome Developer Tools]: https://developers.google.com/chrome-dev...
[Using the JavaScript Console]: https://developers.google.com/chrome-dev...
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer...
[Click&Clean]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...

Answer 3 links:
[documentation]: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin...

Answer 4 links:
['Click & Clean']: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/det...

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ANSWER 1

Score 65


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.




ANSWER 2

Score 19


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




ANSWER 3

Score 9


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




ANSWER 4

Score 9


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.