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Running Firefox 31, Windows 7:
I was running into a bug on a website that I'm testing, where some things that did exist but do not anymore, were still showing up. I tried clearing the cache by pressing Ctrl+F5, but that was not fixing the issue. I then tried clearing cookies, and that still wasn't fixing the issue.
I then tried viewing the site on a different computer -- also running Firefox 31 -- and the site was showing up like it should, with the old stuff that was deleted gone like it should have been. I tried clearing the cache using Ctrl+F5 on the computer that was having the issues for the 50th time, but to no avail, I was still seeing the bug.
I then tried going into the settings instead of pressing Ctrl+F5, and clearing cache that way, by deleting only the cache. This actually worked for me, and I was no longer seeing the bug.
So with that known, why was I still seeing the cache, even though I hit Ctrl+F5 many times to reload the page without the cache? The code didn't change while I was doing all of this, it just seems Ctrl+F5 wasn't working at all for me for some reason (and if I press F3 it does the find function so I know my F-keys are working).
Even the Firefox support site shows that Ctrl+F5 can be used to override the cache, but that wasn't working for me. So does Ctrl+F5 just randomly not work? What could the issue have been? It feels like I now need to go into the settings every single time I want to reload the page without cache, which is fairly often. I know there are workarounds like disabling cache completely or plugins to remove it on click, but I still want cache to show up sometimes, and if the key combination that firefox itself gives us doesn't work sometimes, who's to say a plugin made by some third party developer won't work randomly either?
Alex Podworny
Posted 2014-08-13T16:44:05.840
Reputation: 181
3same problem for me. Out of the blue my FFv45.0 suddenly has this problem. F5 or Ctrl+F5 are plain silent and do anything at all. FF45 on another pc doesn't have that issue though. – Pavel P – 2016-03-15T16:01:37.563
Been having the same issue for a while, not sure which Fx version started this. All the shortcuts to reload + purge cache mentioned there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache#Firefox_and_other_related_browsers don't work for me at the moment :/ The quickest workaround is Ctrl + Shift + Del and then purge cache from here, but that's not very satisfying...
– user14764 – 2017-04-30T20:52:22.503It's important to keep in mind that Ctrl+F5 bypasses the cache, and does not clear it. What was the bug related to? I ask because .htaccess redirects are cached separately from the main cache which Ctrl+F5 bypasses. Also, did you try a private browsing window? – FCTW – 2017-05-01T21:37:25.987
@FCTW sorry, this was posted nearly 3 years ago and I don't remember the exact problem I was personally having or other steps I took trying to fix it, aside from what is in the question – Alex Podworny – 2017-05-04T20:57:47.487
@AlexPodworny Yeah, I only noticed the age after I had already commented. – FCTW – 2017-05-05T20:27:30.530