Web browser caching is good. But even now in the days of 20+Mb broadband, caching web requests still speeds browsing up. It’s also saves money in bandwidth costs.
At home, and work, I set up a caching proxy server with pfSense and Squid, rendering my browser cache effectively useless. Here’s how to disable FireFox’s browser cache completely.
- Fire up FireFox
- Type about:config in your address bar
- Type ‘cache’ in the search bar, and look for network.http.use-cache, and double click it to set it to false. Double clicking it again will set it to true and re-enable the cache
To forcibly reload a page and all its dependencies, direct from source, ignoring local and proxy caches hold the shift key and hit reload. This applies not only to FireFox but also IE6/7 and Safari (maybe others too).
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