Flushing Your Browser Cache

Web Browsers store images and other elements of html code in a "cache" so that the next time you visit the page it will load faster. While this speeds up the browsing experience, it can cause problems when posting new material to a site — the browser keeps pulling from the cache and you can’t see your changes. Time to flush your cache!

Flushing Safari Cache

Safari’s easiest. Just go to the Safari menu and select Empty cache.

Flushing Firefox Cache

Firefox is also easy, but first you have to set some preferences. So open Firefox preferences.

Click on the Privacy Tab, then Settings

Uncheck everything but Cache, then click OK

Then click Clear Now

In the future….

Now that you have your "Clear Private Data" settings you can clear your cache in one step from the Tools menu. (Note: your Tools menu will not look exactly like this example because it lists any Firefox extensions that are installed.)

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