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What is it to force refresh (or force reload) a web page, and how do I do it?

April 26, 2017force Refresh reload web page

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What is it to force refresh (or force reload) a web page, and how do I do it?

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When you visit web pages your browser stores (a.k.a. “caches”) much of the content you see (and don’t see). This can become a problem when the content changes (is updated) on our server because your browser may display invalid or outdated content to you, and not deliver the new or updated content from our server. Your browser is locally caching content in the effort to speed up your web surfing. You can prevent seeing outdated content by force refreshing (a.k.a. “force re-fetching” or “force reloading”) content from our web server. The procedure to do this differs depending on what web browser you use.