How to clear your browser cookies and cache

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How to clear your browser cookies and cache

There are times when you need to make changes to your site settings, design or just change the elements through your entire website. Your hosting provide may or may not enforce browser caching on the most used resources like images, text files, xml files, pdf files etc., however there are times when you need to clear your browser cookies and cache.

To reduce the usage on the server to not request the same file over and over again, these are cached inside your browser cache folder. This is really useful, it can increase your website speed and visitors are more happy with that!

Ok, let’s start with the main topic then, how do you clear your your browser cookies and cache ?

It’s quite simple really, I will go into explaining how to do this for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera.

I’ll start with Mozilla Firefox.

  • How to clear your browser cookies and cache in Mozilla Firefox

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox and click on the Tools menu
  2. Click Clear Recent History
  3. Select the period on when you want to have these removed
  4. Check to have cookies and cache checked
  5. Then hit Clear Now
    Clear cookies and cache in Mozilla Firefox

That is all on Mozilla Firefox. Depending on how much cookies and cache you have it may take a few minutes.

  • How to clear your browser cookies and cache in Google Chrome

  1. Open Google Chrome and click on the top right icon (Customize and control Google Chrome or [Chromium for linux])
  2. Click on Settings
  3. Next, on the bottom, you will have there a link “Show advance settings” click this and it will scroll down some more advance settings.
  4. You should be able to see a button “Clear browsing data…“. Click this button and a new window will appear.
  5. Check to have Empty the cache and Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data checked
  6. Then hit Clear browsing data

Clear cookies and cache Google Chrome

NOTE: In Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome you can also access these utilities by hitting the key combination ctrl+shift+del on your keyboard.

  • How to clear your browser cookies and cache in Opera

  1. Open Opera and click on the top left Opera icon (Menu)
  2. Go to Settings and then to Clear private data
  3. Next you should click on “Detail options“.
  4. You should be able to see a button “Clear browsing data…“. Click this button and a new window will appear.
  5. Check to have Delete entire cache and Delete all cookies checked
  6. Then hit Delete

Clear cookies and cache in Opera

I left out Internet Explorer and maybe you’re asking why. The reasons is I don’t use it, and I don’t like it either. However to clear your cookies and cache, you would probably follow (if memory serves me right):

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Go to Tools/Internet Options
  3. On the first tab click on delete files /and(or) delete cookies
  4. Then delete the ones you want and you are done.

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