How to perform a hard refresh in current versions of Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari for Windows and Mac OS X (I guess this is a total of 8 questions)?
2 Answers
Safari on OS X
- Hold Shift while pressing the reload button
Chrome on OS X
- Press Shift+⌘+R
- Hold Shift, ⌘, or ^ (or any additional modifier keys) while pressing the reload button
In Safari and Chrome you can see if any resources were loaded from a local cache by checking for 304 Not Modified responses in the network tab of the web inspector.
has instructions for common browsers on different platforms.
On Windows it's Ctrl+Shift+R or Ctrl+F5 for most of the browsers.
