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How to Disable Cache for a Website in Chrome

Stuck looking at an outdated cached page in Chrome? Here’s how to disable a website’s cache using Developer Tools.

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Testing changes on a website and tired of Chrome showing you the old cached version? You can turn off caching temporarily using Developer Tools.

How to Disable a Website’s Cache

  1. Open Developer Tools by pressing Ctrl+Shift+I (or Cmd+Option+I on Mac).
  2. Click the Network tab.
  3. Check the box labeled Disable cache near the top of the panel.

Quick Tips

  • The cache stays disabled only while Developer Tools is open. Closing it turns caching back on.
  • You can detach Developer Tools into its own window and minimize it if you want to keep working without it taking up screen space.
  • Refresh the page after checking the box to load a completely fresh version with no cached files.

This is one of the easiest tricks for making sure you’re always looking at the latest version of a site while you’re testing changes.

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Dinsan Francis is the founder of Chrome Story, which he started in 2009 — the same year Google launched Chrome. He has covered the Chrome browser and Chromebook ecosystem for over 15 years and has used Chromebooks as his primary computing device since 2010. He’s always on the bleeding edge, running the Canary build of both Chrome and ChromeOS as daily drivers.

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