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> (This is when I learned about holding down shift while hitting the browser's reload button to make it act like it was a fresh page fetch.) Most useful aside
by copsarebastards 11y ago
> (This is when I learned about holding down shift while hitting the browser's reload button to make it act like it was a fresh page fetch.)
Most useful aside of all time.
- snowwrestler 11y agoI used to use this a lot. My experience is that for some reason, a couple years ago it stopped working reliably as a fresh page fetch. Some items were still coming up cached. Now I use incognito or private browsing windows instead.
- laumars 11y agoIf you're running Chrom(e|ium) with developer tools open then you can right click the refresh button and it gives you a few refresh options (eg clear cache and reload). That tends to be my fall back whenever I'm specifically fussed about the "freshness" of a page. That or curl
- snowwrestler 11y agoThanks, never tried right-clicking that before. There's also a checkbox in dev tools settings to "Disable cache while dev tools is open."
- findjashua 11y agoi used to go through a lot of head scratching when doing manual testing, before discovering the joys of cmd-shift-r