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How to Clear Your Browser Cache

Clearing your browser cache

Jim Aminloo avatar
Written by Jim Aminloo
Updated over a year ago

It's always a good habit to clear your browser cache from time to time. Deleting the cache data helps to troubleshoot, increase the loading time of web pages, and increase the performance of your computer. Sometimes data, which is stored in the cache prohibits loading of up-to-date contents.

For Chrome:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.

  2. At the top right, click More.

  3. Click More Tools. Clear browsing data.

  4. At the top, choose a time range. To delete everything, select All Time.

  5. Next to "Cookies and other site data" and "Cached images and files," check the boxes.

  6. Click Clear data.

For Safari:

  1. Click on the Safari drop-down menu and select Preferences.

  2. Click the Advanced tab. Select the Show Develop menu in the menu bar checkbox and close the Preferences window.

  3. Select the Develop drop-down menu. Click Empty Cache.

  4. Note: You may want to also clear your browser history.

For Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Click the menu button and select Preferences.

  2. Select the Privacy & Security panel.

  3. In the Cookies and Site Data section, click Clear Data

  4. Remove the checkmark in front of Cookies and Site Data.

  5. With the Cached Web Content check marked, click the Clear button.

  6. Close the About: preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.

For Microsoft Edge:

  1. Open Microsoft Edge, select Menu (3 dots icon on top right corner of the browser) > Settings > Privacy & services.

  2. Under Clear browsing data, select Choose what to clear.

  3. Select "Cached images and files" and "Cookies and other site data" check box and then select Clear.

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