Clearing the cache for a webpage displayed in Firefox
I had opened an HTML file
in the Firefox browser
and needed to refresh the display of the file, which was using a
CSS file located on a
remote web server, after the remote CSS file had changed. Clicking on
the refresh/reload button on the Firefox navigation bar or pressing the
F5 key would show changes I made to the local file, but would not
reflect changes to the remote CSS file, which was
cached
on the local system's disk drive.
You can remove a cached CSS
for a specific webpage by performing a forced reload of that webpage.
A forced reload tells Firefox to ignore the cached files and download fresh
copies from the server. The keyboard shortcut, which works on Linux, is to
hold down Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + F5. Alternatively, you can hold
the Shift key and click the Reload button on the navigation toolbar.
This is usually the quickest solution for a single page.
