I am developing a website that has a moderately-sized user base. I am going to be rolling out a new version of the page soon. In my testing, I have noticed that my browsers don't notice that there are new versions of some of the CSS files available on the servers, and renders the page with the old CSS files. This causes display glitches. How do I let browsers know that new CSS/Javascript files are available and to update it's cache?
posted by LoopyG on Oct 9, 2009 - 18 answers

Did clearing my cookies and cache prevent Google Analytics from tracking my blog? [more inside]
posted by serunding on Sep 1, 2009 - 3 answers

A commercial Web-based product our university purchased to provide student account summaries and collect tuition payments works well for 98%+ of the users. It only works for the rest, however, if they first clear their browser cache. [more inside]
posted by davcoo on Aug 25, 2009 - 12 answers

What might be changing these HKCU registry key values? [more inside]
posted by aydeejones on Jun 1, 2009 - 5 answers

Hard drive issues: Frequently when I attempt to open a folder on my Windows Vista partition I will have to wait 5 seconds or so for the drive to spin up (I hear it). Is there some way I can fix my cache or otherwise set up the drive so that it doesn't need to spin up every time I access files on my root drive? [more inside]
posted by Aanidaani on Nov 22, 2008 - 3 answers

When I browse to Talking Points Memo with Chrome from work I see the page as of Sept 24th. At home, with Chrome, I see the page as of today. At work in IE7 I see the site correctly. No other websites are affected. [more inside]
posted by Maastrictian on Sep 29, 2008 - 9 answers

I did a Google search and came up with a link to a Craigslist posting, but the post is expired. Obviously, Google has the text of this because it shows me snippets of it in the search result list, but there is no "Cached" link for me to see it. How can I get this info out of Google or Craigslist? Or, alternatively, is there a website that has cached versions of Craigslist posts? The post in question is ten days old.
posted by MrZero on Aug 28, 2008 - 3 answers

What is your most ingenious hiding place for valuables? [more inside]
posted by DB Cooper on Jul 21, 2008 - 49 answers

Is there any way to find a cache page of a website that was taken down within the past day? I have tried the major search engines with no luck... [more inside]
posted by kjl291 on May 27, 2008 - 4 answers

What is the ideal size for a browser's disk cache? [more inside]
posted by wastelands on May 10, 2008 - 11 answers

Force IE7 to use cache? [more inside]
posted by CaptApollo on Mar 19, 2008 - 4 answers

My domain is resolving for others to see, but not me ! [more inside]
posted by jurczyk on Mar 3, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there any way to cache a set list of websites so they load from the hard drive instead of dynamically? [more inside]
posted by genial on Feb 5, 2008 - 9 answers

How does Facebook handle or simplify the presumably complicated DB queries involved so that me loading my page doesn't bring it to its knees? [more inside]
posted by bonaldi on Feb 4, 2008 - 27 answers

Say that I will go travelling for one month without internet access. For my email that poses no problem. All incoming mails wait for me in gmail when I get back. But how can I similarly avoid missing content in the many RSS feeds I regularly read? Can some online service cache all the feeds for me? [more inside]
posted by nolnar on Jan 16, 2008 - 14 answers

When I go to espn.com from work, I get a page that is completely unstyled. I can't make it refresh to see its stylesheet. I've cleared cache and flushed dns. At home, it's fine. [more inside]
posted by luser on Dec 3, 2007 - 5 answers

I am attempting to configure caching on an Apache server. I have it right for the most part, but.....I would like to prevent browsers from even checking the server once files like images are in the browser cache until an expiry date is exceeded. [more inside]
posted by jasondigitized on Jul 18, 2007 - 2 answers

Why is Vista showing the wrong icon for Windows Photo Gallery? [more inside]
posted by phaded on Jul 17, 2007 - 3 answers

Does Windows create temp files on the local disc when copying a large file from an external drive to a network share? [more inside]
posted by DZ-015 on Jul 9, 2007 - 2 answers

Why aren't my php files caching locally? [more inside]
posted by twine42 on Jul 4, 2007 - 6 answers

How come my L2 and L3 cache is disabled? Am I taking a performance hit? [more inside]
posted by mzurer on Feb 18, 2007 - 4 answers

How can I recover my deleted Froogle list? I once had a lengthy (20-30 items?) shopping list on Froogle, here. I pointed people to this list as recently as December and it was full then. It now appears the entire list is gone. The items for myself aren't that important (if I can't remember I want it, maybe I don't really need it), but I used the list to keep track of gift ideas for others, and I'd really like to recover those. I've searched for an older cache on the Wayback Machine, Google, and Yahoo, with no luck. And I can't find any means of contacting Google for help.
posted by scottreynen on Feb 15, 2007 - 7 answers

How can I prove that a mistake existed on a website six months ago? [more inside]
posted by roll truck roll on Jan 26, 2007 - 20 answers

Is it possible to write a program that uses only physical RAM, and not the swap/pagefile in Windows? [more inside]
posted by torpark on Nov 30, 2006 - 5 answers

BrowserCacheFilter: I’m turning an unused XP box and big monitor into a full-screen browser based online digital sign. How do I replace web errors (ex: page not found) with cached versions of the page or file from when it was available? [more inside]
posted by linklog on Oct 5, 2006 - 1 answer

NotFirefoxagainfilter: How do I stop from having to clear my cache every 5 minutes? [more inside]
posted by i8ny3x on Jul 1, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm looking for a way to access a very slow, graphics-intensive website more quickly. How can I force Firefox to keep this website's images in its cache? [more inside]
posted by meeeeeep on Apr 9, 2006 - 5 answers

How does Google collect content that is subscription-only? I've found that I can often read the cached html versions of pdf files from subscription-only sites even when I can't get the pdf itself. How do they do that?
posted by shoos on Dec 30, 2005 - 12 answers

Is it likely that Google would only cache one page out of a multi-page article? [more inside]
posted by planetthoughtful on Nov 24, 2005 - 9 answers

How can I obtain copies (screenshot or cache) of government officials' websites as they appeared a week, two weeks, a month ago? [more inside]
posted by LordSludge on Nov 22, 2005 - 6 answers

During the course of Hurricane Katrina, I updated a single entry at LiveJournal numerous times with stories of New Orleanians who rode out the hurricane. It was linked to both from a few comments in MetaFilter and also from BoingBoing and other sites. Unfortunately, a LJ bug truncated the first few entries of the post, and I need to find someone out there with a cached copy of my entry at http://insomnia.livejournal.com/599039.html ... can't find it on google or archive.org. Anyone out there have a cache of this, or have any novel ideas on how to find such a cached entry?
posted by insomnia_lj on Sep 9, 2005 - 3 answers

How can I retrieve a file from the Firefox cache? about:cache lets you view what's in the cache, but it doesn't let you see the cached pages. How can I access them?
posted by punishinglemur on May 8, 2005 - 4 answers

I am attempting to clean up the parents' computer, as I do every trip home. I am having a problem with the temporary internet files. [more inside]
posted by chiababe on May 7, 2005 - 7 answers

How do I delete the Google Desktop cache? I can't find it anywhere!
posted by johnnydark on Feb 15, 2005 - 5 answers

Where archive.org fails: I'd like to research the development of news websites - specifically those established by traditional media companies (CNN, The New York Times, etc). While archive.org is a valuable resource, many of the sites I'd like to look at block the automated scripts (robots) that make archiving possible. What's more, some of the sites archived are woefully incomplete and are missing images, etc. Is there an alternative to archive.org or another resource that I might use? [more inside]
posted by aladfar on Jan 22, 2005 - 4 answers

How do I bypass registration-only webpages like the googlebot seems to? [more inside]
posted by trharlan on Nov 12, 2004 - 13 answers

Web browser image cache mayhem: We've got a fairly ancient Dell box running Win98. On Javascript-intensive websites like the New York Times, following a link or a form button ends up redirecting to a random GIF image on the source page, rather than the target destination. We have to hit refresh a bunch of times before the page actually loads. Switching between IE and Firefox doesn't seem to make a difference. Any software fixes for us? (We don't want to install XP as we don't want to rock the boat and we're not sure the system can handle it.)
posted by PrinceValium on Oct 10, 2004 - 5 answers

Mac OSX Safari --Is there a script/action that I can enable to automatically erase my cache and history files at a certain time each day? While being fairly Mac savvy, I have no experience with writing scripts. I'm really looking for an easy solution, perhaps a piece of freeware?
posted by sharksandwich on Mar 26, 2004 - 6 answers

Why does Google, which purportedly have a mondo cache of everything, "lose" search results over time? That is, if I search on something today that I last searched on a year ago, my results don't include all of last year's results. I understand that there's a complicated ranking algorithm, but that doesn't explain why some results go missing altogether.
posted by blueshammer on Mar 5, 2004 - 5 answers

I can't find my Temporary Internet Files in Windows XP! [more inside] [more inside]
posted by precocious on Jan 24, 2004 - 3 answers