I dunno what exactly it's called, by cache refresh I mean, refresh the page after clearing its cache. I don't want to clear the entire browser cache.
I prefer Chrome's Dev panel against firebug... don't ask me why. But I can't seem to cache refresh my pages. In FF, I know it to be Shift+Refresh.
In chrome, I've tried Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Refresh, Alt+Refresh, Shift+Refresh but none of them work.
EDIT: I got a Notable Question Badge for the lamest question I've ever asked. FML.
According to documentation, ctrl-F5 or shift-F5 should work. Maybe you have a proxy configured on IE & chrome, which is caching your page?
This doesn't seem to work on the Linux (beta) version as of 13 January 2010.
May 2010, Linux Chromium seems to work using Shift+F5 but not Ctrl+F5
Another interesting option is to open a new incognito window (ctrl+shift+n). This window won't use any stored cookies, cached content, or dns resolutions, so you can test stuff in it without slowing your normal browsing down by dumping the cache. This is what I almost always do instead of clearing the cache.
it could simply be your keyboard settings, check if you have the functions keys enabled or disabled, with my logitech keybaord it is the FMode key, similar to NumLock!
I've had problems with Chrome refreshing in spite of using shift+f5 or command+shift+r. What I've found works though pretty brutish is to hold down command+shift+r for a few seconds so that the browser makes multiple attempts to refresh the java cache and fails. Then the next time it successfully retrieve JS from the server.
Click the Tools menu. (the wrench in the upper-right corner)
Select Options.
Click the Under the Hood tab.
Click Clear browsing data…
Check the boxes for the types of information you wish to delete.
You can also choose the period of time you wish to delete cached information using the Clear data from this period dropdown menu.
Seriously! Ctrl+F5 isn't working correctly in Chrome. I was also very surprised to realize that, but it's true. I'm using version 7.0.517.41 on Windows XP
Chrome's a bitch for this. Sometime's I can get Shift+F5 to work but not always. My solution for the moment is to use the 'Click & Clean' extension. It's ugly but works every time so I'd recommend that for now.
I'm a web developer and I have this issue on a regular basis. Javascript seems to be the only thing that sticks around after cache has been cleared (using ALL of the methods above). All images and content are refreshed, but not the js. I sometimes have to clear the cache, close the browser, reopen the page and refresh AGAIN for my changes to come through.
Can anyone point us to a solution that actually works?