Clearing Your Browser Cache
Can't stop your browser from loading an out-of-date
page or an image? Your browser taking longer to exit?
Your favorite Java applet is misbehaving? Running
out of disk space?
One of the answers to all of the above questions may
be to clear your browser's cache. Almost all web browsers
maintain a local copy of web pages and other related
items on your disk or memory to speedup reloading
of previously visited pages from the Internet. This
time saver may get bigger and slower over long periods
of time. If this is causing problems, try clearing
your browser cache as follows.
Although it's not required by all browsers, restarting
your browser after clearing the cache is a good idea.
If you're using Explorer 4.x or Explorer 5.x it's
better to restart the computer as well.
Netscape Communicator 4.x:
- Select "Edit | Preferences..." from
the main menu
- Change to the "Advanced | Cache" section
- Click on "Clear Memory Cache" and "Clear
Disk Cache" buttons to clear memory and disk
cache
TIP:Navigator 3.x and Communicator
4.x users: If you're often having to reload frequently
updated pages, you may want to take this chance
to set "Verify Documents" option to "Every
Time." This will make the browser retreive
the latest copy of a web page even if it's in the
cache.
Internet Explorer 5.x/6.x:
- Select "Tools | Internet Options..."
from the main menu
- Change to the "General" tab
- Click on "Delete Files" button
TIP:If you have stored web pages for
offline viewing, check "Delete all offline
content"
America Online 4.x:
- Select "My AOL | Preferences" from the
main menu
- Click on the "WWW" button
- Change to the "General" tab
- Click on "Delete Files" button
TIP: If you have Explorer 4.x Active Channel
subscriptions, check "Delete all subscription
content" to delete cached channel content as
well. If you have stored web pages for offline viewing,
check "Delete all offline content"
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