Microsoft Edge: hard refresh?

Self-tutoring about web browsers: the tutor mentions the idea of a hard refresh on Microsoft Edge.

The following is according to my understanding.

While I’ve read that Ctrl+F5 is meant to cause a hard refresh on Edge, it doesn’t seem to work on some devices I use. By way of background, I mention about hard refresh back in my post from Nov 25, 2020. It’s my understanding that a hard refresh is supposed to load a web page from its source rather than from the browser’s cache.

Today, I knew a web page had changed, but wasn’t yet seeing the change. I decided to go for the hard refresh, but how? Ctrl+F5 didn’t seem to work.

I went to the three dots in the upper right corner, then from More tools selected Developer tools. Next, I clicked the three dots at top right of the Developer tools pane, then Settings. Therein, I scrolled down to Network, wherein I saw the option “Disable cache while DevTools is open.” I checked that box.

After that, I refreshed the page, and saw the changes. Satisfied, I unchecked the “Disable cache” box to allow normal caching of the page.

There’s a lot to explore in the Developer tools of Microsoft Edge:)

Source:

stackoverflow.com