How to Hard Refresh Browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, or Safari

Anyone who uses a web browser is probably aware of the advantages of cached data, which allows pages to load faster. How to Hard Refresh Browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, or Safari?

The only issue is that web pages occasionally undergo changes that are too minor for the browser to notice, resulting in web page loading errors.

This is due to the fact that when you load the page, the data stored in the browser’s cache differs from what the page is feeding it at the time, resulting in errors.

When this happens, you have one of three options:

Perform a complete browser reset
Perform a complete clear cache, along with clearing your browser’s history
Perform a hard refresh on the web page that has issues

We’ve created this step-by-step article to show you how to use a hard refresh on your web browser because the last option is the least destructive in terms of saved data.

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How To Hard Refresh Browser?

Hard refreshes are performed using keybindings, and the keybindings used for hard refreshes are similar to those used for regular refreshes:

Hard Refresh Chrome (Works on Mac, too)

Method 1

Launch Google Chrome, and open a web page of your choosing
Hold down Ctrl, and press Shift + F5.

Method 2

Open a web page
Press Ctrl + Shift + C
- You can also right-click on an empty area of the page and select Inspect
- Pressing F12 also works
Press the refresh button for a longer period of time
- A new drop-down menu will appear under the refresh button
Select Hard Reload or Empty Cache and Hard Reload

Note that this method works with the Mac version of Chrome as well.

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Hard Refresh Edge, Firefox, Opera

Launch your web browser, and open a web page of your choosing
Hold down Ctrl, and press F5.

A hard refresh will appear to be the same as a regular refresh in terms of appearance, though the webpage may take slightly longer to reload.

When the page reloads, it will have fresh new cached data, and the layout of the entire page may be drastically different than before.

All other browsers, particularly those based on Chromium, work in a similar way, so make sure you try Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+F5 on them as well, as one of the two will almost certainly work.