GraysUnderground.com » Firefox http://www.graysunderground.com Gray's Tech Blog Thu, 20 May 2010 17:31:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to disable FireFox caching http://www.graysunderground.com/2009/03/18/how-to-disable-firefox-caching/ http://www.graysunderground.com/2009/03/18/how-to-disable-firefox-caching/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:19 +0000 Gray http://www.graysunderground.com/2009/03/18/how-to-disable-firefox-caching/ 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.

  1.    Fire up FireFox
  2.    Type about:config in your address bar
  3.    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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