how to clear the cache for a specific site on Chrome (macbook pro)
October 15, 2024 12:05 PM Subscribe
Pretty much the title. My workplace changed to a different instance of our platform, and Chrome keeps opening the old one and I can't access student records. I don't want to clear ALL of my cache - just the work stuff. 2023 Macbook Pro M2.
I've tried searching on the internet but I am past the age where I have the ability to parse through all of the garbage.
I've tried searching on the internet but I am past the age where I have the ability to parse through all of the garbage.
Shift-F5 fully reloads the page you're on, ignoring local cache.
posted by mhoye at 12:24 PM on October 15, 2024
posted by mhoye at 12:24 PM on October 15, 2024
My guess is that you want to remove the old site from your history, so it doesn't autosuggest? I think this should be possible in the "History" section of Chrome's settings.
posted by BungaDunga at 12:35 PM on October 15, 2024
posted by BungaDunga at 12:35 PM on October 15, 2024
Response by poster: "Shift-F5 fully reloads the page you're on, ignoring local cache."
On a Mac? F5 looks like it has a microphone icon on my keyboard
posted by tzikeh at 12:39 PM on October 15, 2024
On a Mac? F5 looks like it has a microphone icon on my keyboard
posted by tzikeh at 12:39 PM on October 15, 2024
Best answer: You want Settings > Privacy & Security > Site Settings > View permissions and data stored across sites (which you can get to directly at chrome://settings/content/all). From here you can search for the specific site and delete everything for it.
It is very silly that this isn't accessible from Delete Browsing Data, since that's the obvious place to look for it.
posted by ssg at 12:39 PM on October 15, 2024 [1 favorite]
It is very silly that this isn't accessible from Delete Browsing Data, since that's the obvious place to look for it.
posted by ssg at 12:39 PM on October 15, 2024 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: "You want Settings > Privacy & Security > Site Settings > View permissions and data stored across sites (which you can get to directly at chrome://settings/content/all). From here you can search for the specific site and delete everything for a specific site."
Brilliant! That was exactly right - thank you!
And yeah it is very silly that this isn't accessible from Delete Browsing Data.
posted by tzikeh at 12:48 PM on October 15, 2024 [1 favorite]
Brilliant! That was exactly right - thank you!
And yeah it is very silly that this isn't accessible from Delete Browsing Data.
posted by tzikeh at 12:48 PM on October 15, 2024 [1 favorite]
On a Mac? F5 looks like it has a microphone icon on my keyboard
Even Macs can generate F-key codes if you ask them nicely.
That said, F5 is just a keyboard shortcut for Page Reload and if it's not a shortcut you're used to then you can just click the button (curled arrow icon) instead. On most browsers, Chrome included, holding down the Shift key while triggering a page reload by any means gets you a "hard" reload that force-reloads all of the page's requisites as well as the page itself, ignoring and overwriting anything already cached for it.
Chrome should also show you a little slide-controls icon in the address bar just to the left of the current URL. Clicking that will expose a menu including "Cookies and site data", which brings up another menu including "Manage on-device site data", which brings up a dialog with a trashcan button on it for deleting all the current site's locally stored data (which includes cookies).
To make a web site behave as if it's being accessed for the first time ever, deleting all its locally stored data and then doing a hard reload on it will achieve that without disturbing browser settings or affecting the workings of other sites.
posted by flabdablet at 6:49 AM on October 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
Even Macs can generate F-key codes if you ask them nicely.
That said, F5 is just a keyboard shortcut for Page Reload and if it's not a shortcut you're used to then you can just click the button (curled arrow icon) instead. On most browsers, Chrome included, holding down the Shift key while triggering a page reload by any means gets you a "hard" reload that force-reloads all of the page's requisites as well as the page itself, ignoring and overwriting anything already cached for it.
Chrome should also show you a little slide-controls icon in the address bar just to the left of the current URL. Clicking that will expose a menu including "Cookies and site data", which brings up another menu including "Manage on-device site data", which brings up a dialog with a trashcan button on it for deleting all the current site's locally stored data (which includes cookies).
To make a web site behave as if it's being accessed for the first time ever, deleting all its locally stored data and then doing a hard reload on it will achieve that without disturbing browser settings or affecting the workings of other sites.
posted by flabdablet at 6:49 AM on October 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
I often struggle with this question because of a site I visit that goes "can't be reached" every few months and the solution is to delete cookies just for that site. I've been going with ssg's solution above, but it looks like flabdablet's solution using the slide-controls is easier, and I'll try that next time.
posted by beagle at 10:27 AM on October 16, 2024
posted by beagle at 10:27 AM on October 16, 2024
On Firefox it's easier still: click the lock icon to the left of the URL in the address bar and "Clear cookies and site data" is right there, no spelunking needed.
posted by flabdablet at 8:37 PM on October 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 8:37 PM on October 16, 2024 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: On Firefox it's easier still: click the lock icon to the left of the URL in the address bar and "Clear cookies and site data" is right there, no spelunking needed.
if only my workplace's online platform "supported" Firefox.
posted by tzikeh at 8:43 AM on October 17, 2024
if only my workplace's online platform "supported" Firefox.
posted by tzikeh at 8:43 AM on October 17, 2024
Response by poster: On most browsers, Chrome included, holding down the Shift key while triggering a page reload by any means gets you a "hard" reload that force-reloads all of the page's requisites as well as the page itself, ignoring and overwriting anything already cached for it.
Yeah I know this and have used it many times over the years, but it did not work for this platform. I should have mentioned in the original post that I'd already done this, to no avail.
posted by tzikeh at 8:44 AM on October 17, 2024
Yeah I know this and have used it many times over the years, but it did not work for this platform. I should have mentioned in the original post that I'd already done this, to no avail.
posted by tzikeh at 8:44 AM on October 17, 2024
Doing the cookies and site data data deletion dance via the URL bar button and then following up with a hard reload should work though, yes?
posted by flabdablet at 9:25 AM on October 17, 2024
posted by flabdablet at 9:25 AM on October 17, 2024
Response by poster: Doing the cookies and site data data deletion dance via the URL bar button and then following up with a hard reload should work though, yes?
Dunno - ssg's fix worked for me so I didn't try the others
posted by tzikeh at 1:06 PM on October 17, 2024
Dunno - ssg's fix worked for me so I didn't try the others
posted by tzikeh at 1:06 PM on October 17, 2024
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