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is there a difference between these two shortcuts on most browsers?
şaloma
Posted 2010-10-30T20:21:54.020
Reputation: 873
Ctrl+F5 vs Ctrl+R (On Browsers)
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digitxp
Posted 2010-10-30T20:21:54.020
Reputation: 13 502
2so it is same as F5? – şaloma – 2010-10-30T21:05:57.877
7@Infestor, in Firefox F5 and Ctrl-R are the same. Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-Shift-R are the same too. Of course, that's only one out of many browsers. – Arjan – 2010-10-30T22:59:13.613
1(As an aside: using F5/Ctrl-R might make a browser still ask the server if the content has changed by using If-Modified-Since headers, hence still leaving it up to the server to serve new content or not. Hitting Ctrl-L to get to the location bar and pressing Return, or selecting a bookmark makes most browsers rely on their cache without asking the server about any changes.) – Arjan – 2010-10-30T23:08:02.230
@Arjan is this the same for Chrome? Like it is in FireFox? – Kevdog777 – 2013-04-29T15:03:23.490
Yes, @Kevdog777, you can check using the developer tools (Option+Command+I on a Mac, and then peek into the Network pane). But in case you're asking as you're having problems with Chrome's cache, then see another answer.
– Arjan – 2013-04-29T17:13:58.273Thanks, but I'm on Windows. It is a keyboard shortcut on a program I was using, and by mistake, pressed it on Chrome, and the page just refreshed, so wanted to know what happened. :) – Kevdog777 – 2013-04-30T08:19:13.997
1My completely unresearched educated guess is that
Ctrl+F5generally refreshes the page without using cache whileCtrl+Ror plainF5refreshes the page using cache as normal. – None – 2010-10-30T20:42:14.707