You can often hear the recommendation "clear your browser cache". Basically, this needs to be done when the browser starts to work slowly or some sites are displayed incorrectly. For example, the page formatting is completely confused, and instead of the website content, you see something incomprehensible.

First of all, in such cases, I recommend simply refreshing the page (F5), and if it doesn't help, then refresh it using the "Ctrl + F5" combination. This technique tells the browser to reload the page from the Internet, i.e. without using your internal cache. If this does not help, then you still need to delete the cache. I will show you how to do this using the example of popular browsers, as well as a universal solution using a special program.

How to clear the cache of the Google Chrome browser

In chrome, click on the upper right button of the settings and select "History" from the menu, or simply press "Ctrl + H"

In the next window, you need to select what exactly we want to delete. To clear only the cache, leave one tick "Images and other files saved in the cache". Don't forget to select "All the time". Click "Delete data". Everything is ready.

Microsoft Edge

The Edge browser is a successor to IE, but it has a completely different menu. Go to "Options"

Scroll down to the "Clear Browser Data" section

And click "Select what you want to clear"

We leave only "Cached data and files".

Maxthon Cloude Browser

The very interesting Maxthon browser is gaining popularity. It is on the chrome engine and seems to many more convenient and flexible. The cache is cleaned almost the same way here. Go to the menu and select "Clear browser history". Well, further it is already clear

Universal cleaning method - CCleaner

Go to the site, download and install the CCleaner program.

In principle, you can download the portable version and then installation is not required, you can immediately run

By default, the tab opens "Cleaning -> Applications", this is what we need. The program can work with major browsers: Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. On the "Applications" tab, uncheck all the boxes, except for "Internet cache" and click "Cleanup". For IE, go to the "Windows" tab and leave only "Temporary Internet Files". In general, CCleaner is a very useful program that allows you to remove a bunch of garbage from your computer, but that's the topic of a whole article.

What is a cache for?

When a browser loads a website, it saves it to its storage, the cache. When you visit this site again, the browser will not completely download it from the Internet, but will refer to the files that are already saved on disk.

But do not think that without access to the Internet you can go to previously viewed sites, this will not work. To do this, you need to advance using special programs. But still, you can get some information from the cache, for example.

The browser is the most popular application today, running most of the time on all computers. In order to load and display pages of Internet sites faster, all popular Internet browsers use caching.

Browser cache- These are temporary files from the Internet that are stored on your computer for a certain time. Browsers use it in order not to load images, scripts, style files, etc. every time a page of one site is refreshed, thereby significantly accelerating the loading speed of Internet sites you visit frequently.

But in addition to the fact that cache files speed up the loading of sites, they can also often take up a significant amount of space on your hard disk (this is especially noticeable if you have a small SSD), and sometimes even interfere with the work with some sites whose content is frequently updated, for example how, instead of downloading new data from the server, the browser downloads outdated data from its cache.

To solve the problems described above, you need clear browser cache... This is a fairly simple task, but finding the desired item in your browser settings can sometimes be quite difficult, especially for a novice computer user.

Precisely about how to clear the cache in popular browsers (Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge and even Internet Explorer) we will tell you in detail and with pictures in this article.

Due to the fact that we have tried to describe the process in as much detail as possible clear cache memory for all popular browsers, this article turned out to be quite voluminous. Use the content to quickly jump to the instructions for your browser.

A browser from the well-known world giant of the IT industry - Google called Google Chrome today is the most popular browser in the Russian segment of the Internet (as evidenced by the data of visitors to our site), we will start with it.

Albeit not often, but many of us need to clear the cache of our browser to get new data from the site and clear the old ones on our computer. We will tell you how to do this in Google Chrome in detail and point by point in the instructions below. It's not difficult at all, you just need to delve a little deeper into the browser settings.

Clearing the cache in Chrome

It's all. As a result of your actions, all data saved in the cache will be cleared.

As you can see, it is quite easy to clear the cache in Chrome. You will not lose any data and browser history if you do not check the boxes in front of other items in the last paragraph, you can not worry about this.

Yandex Browser is a product of the Russian company Yandex, based on the Chromium browser, like Google Chrome, so the process of clearing the cache in them is almost identical, with the exception of some cosmetic changes made by the Yandex Browser developers in the settings menu.

A simple and clear instruction below will tell you in detail and point by point on how to clear the cache in a browser from Yandex.

Clearing the cache in Yandex

That's all. After a few seconds, your browser cache will be cleared. If you do not check any other checkboxes, then you should not worry about the loss of any data, only the cache will be cleared, and cookies, passwords, and other data will be saved.

In the most popular browser on Mac OS - Apple's Safari browser, by default, there is no way to clear cached files in the settings, but this function is quite simply enabled in the additional browser settings.

In order to clear the cache in Safari, regardless of whether you have Mac OS or Windows, just turn on developer mode once, and in the future this task will be solved in exactly two clicks. Read more in the instructions below.

Clearing the cache in Safari

1. Open the browser settings by clicking on its name in the upper left corner of the screen and selecting the item with the name in the drop-down menu "Settings...".
   
   
2. In the window that opens, find the tab "Add-ons", for this click on the symbol ">>" in its upper right part, open it.
   
   
3. At the very bottom of the window that opens, check the box next to Show Develop menu on menu bar and close the settings.
   
   
4. An additional tab has now appeared in the top menu of the Safari browser "Development"... You can clear the cache in it. To do this, find and click in the drop-down menu of this tab item "Clear caches".
   

It's all. Safari will not show any additional dialog boxes, after a couple of seconds after clicking the cache clear item, everything will be ready. Having turned on the developer mode once, you can not turn it off, it does not interfere at all, and such operations as clearing the cache, styles, images, etc. you will perform faster.

The Firefox browser (or FireLis in common people) from Mozilla is also quite popular among our users, and we will not bypass it either. The process of clearing cached files in Mozilla is slightly different from that in other browsers, it is even slightly simpler. So if you do not know how to clear the cache in Mozilla Firefox, then the detailed instructions below are written just for you.

Clearing the cache in Mozilla Firefox

After a few seconds, your browser cache will be cleared. If you have not checked any other checkboxes in the last paragraph, no data other than cached files will be affected.

The Opera browser occupies an honorable fifth place in the popularity rating of browsers, and the percentage of its users in Russia is twice the world average (it became so popular with us largely thanks to the mobile version - Opera mini with turbo mode, which allows you to save traffic), so they could not we get around it too.

If you are a happy user of this browser, but do not know how to clear its cache, our detailed instructions with pictures and a description of the entire process will definitely help you in this matter.

Clearing the cache in Opera

As a result of your actions, the Opera cache will be completely cleared, and other files (cookies, download history, etc.) will not be affected, of course, if you did not check the corresponding checkboxes in the last paragraph.

A new browser from Microsoft, which replaced its immortal brother Internet Explorer - the Edge browser. It is tightly integrated into the operating system, and the task of clearing the cache in it is somewhat similar to making settings in Windows, but in fact it is very simple to solve.

Clearing the cache in Microsoft Edge is no more difficult than in any other browser, and the cleaning process itself is more visual, in addition, Edge even reports the successful completion of the cache deletion with a separate message.

Clearing the cache in Microsoft Edge

1. Open the Edge browser menu by clicking on the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the screen.
   
2. In the settings column that opens on the right, find the item with the name "Clear browser data" and click under it the button with the text "Choose what you want to clear".
   
3. Check the box "Cached data and files" and press the button "Clear" under him.
   
   
4. After a few seconds, you will see a message stating that clearing cached data in the Edge browser completed successfully.
   
   

As you can see, everything is quite simple and clear. During the cleaning process, you can see a progress bar, and upon completion, a pop-up notification for a few seconds informs you that the work on deleting the cache is complete.

From all sides, morally and physically obsolete, but still used by many and beloved by Microsoft - Internet Explorer. Fortunately, the very few visitors to our site (based on visit statistics) who still use it are using one of the latest versions - Internet Explorer 8, 10, or 11.

However, in order to clear the cache in IE of any version, the algorithm of your actions will be the same, and the instructions below will help in any case, even if you have an earlier version of the browser (for example, Internet Explorer 6).

Clearing the cache in Explorer

1. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select the item in the drop-down menu "Browser properties".
   
   
2. In the tab "Are common"(it will open by default) find the line "Browser history" and click the button below it "Delete...".
   
   
3. In the window that opens, check the box only opposite the item "Temporary Internet and Website Files" and press the button below "Delete".
   
   
4. As a result, you will see a message at the bottom of the page stating that the browser cache has been cleared successfully.
   

As you can see from the information above, the task of clearing the cache in any modern browser is solved quite quickly and simply, you just need to figure out how to do it once and you shouldn't have any difficulties in the future.

Greetings, friends.

The Internet has become a familiar part of our professional life and leisure, we can no longer imagine a day without social networks, instant messengers and e-mail. To take advantage of all the possibilities of the global network, we go into a special program - a browser, also known as a web browser. The most popular of them are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Yandex Browser, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Safari for Apple devices.

Today we will figure out how to clear the browser cache, why and in what cases it needs to be done, consider the sequence of actions for all popular web browsers.

Whatever program you use to access the Internet, they all create temporary files on your computer's hard drive or a memory card of your mobile device. This is the cache, it stores information about the latest sites that you visited, fragments of documents, audio and video recordings.

Having a copy of a page, video, or image on your PC significantly speeds up your browser. If there were no cache, we would have to wait a long time for each Internet resource to load, which we all really do not like, and some even completely infuriate, because we are already accustomed to good Internet speed. It became available, including through caching, storing information about visited pages.

Once loaded into memory, you can watch videos or other content even without network access. When you watch a video, a white bar shows the process of saving it to the cache. When it reaches the end, it will mean that further display is not from a server on the Internet, but from your device.

Why delete temporary files

On the one hand, we understand that the browser needs a cache to work quickly, but there is another side to the coin - files gradually accumulate, and the opposite effect is obtained. If you are trying to understand why your computer slows down when accessing the Internet, then the first thing I recommend is to clear the history and cache of your web browser.

Also, "cleaning" should be done:

• if pages do not load correctly, do not refresh or do it slowly;
• if there are suspicions of viruses, you must first check the device with a good antivirus, then delete temporary files;
• if the site does not load on the first try, it gives errors. Of course, there are problems with the resource itself, but often the reason lies in the browser;
• every 3 - 6 months prophylactically, so as not to wait for problems.

If you use someone else's computer to access the Internet, then it is better to do it in "Incognito" mode, so as not to save information about your actions on the hard drive.

What happens if you clear the cache

After starting the process of completely clearing the history, all accounts will be logged out, information about visits to websites will be erased, only the tabs that are currently open will remain. Therefore, make sure that logins, passwords and other important information are saved in a different place.

If you delete only the cache, then no special changes will occur, only the sites will start loading a little longer, and, possibly, their appearance will be updated. Therefore, carefully study the settings before starting the cleaning and choose which data you want to get rid of. I will show you how to do this later in this article.

Cache Clearing Instructions

With the main questions, I think we figured it out, now let's get down to business and consider, in order, the algorithm of actions in all popular web browsers.

Google chrome

Open Chrome and go to the main menu by clicking on 3 points in the right corner of the screen. In the drop-down list, select the "Additional tools" section and express your desire to delete the history.

Select the time range and data types to delete. The screenshot below shows a complete cleanup. To remove only files from the cache, leave only the 3rd item active.

Please note that if synchronization with your Google account is enabled, the login information will be saved, but the information will be deleted from all devices you are logged into. If you need to get rid of history on only one computer, turn off sync.

After starting, you need to wait a few minutes. If the files have accumulated, then be prepared that their deletion will not take place very quickly.

You can also clear the data store if you go to the browser settings.

We go down and open additional options.

Then we select the item "Clear history".

Set the time, data format and click on the blue button at the bottom of the window.

Mozilla Firefox

Click on the 3 strips in the right corner of the top panel and select the "Library" section, and inside it - "Journal".

In the menu that opens, we need the item "Delete history". We go into it, then select the period, the types of data that we are ready to delete, and confirm the action. Wait for the process to complete, it will take some time.

There is also a second way. In the same way, go to the menu by clicking on 3 strips, but select another section - "Settings".

Here we are interested in the item "Privacy and Security", and in it a subsection concerning cookies and other data. Find it and click on the phrase “Delete data”.

Note that you can also check the box here to clear all temporary information when Firefox is closed.

In the window that appears, select both items or only the second and confirm your desire to get rid of unnecessary data.

Yandex browser

We go to the menu, which is located under the icon in the form of a list in the top panel of the program. Then we go to the item "Advanced", "Clear history".

In the window that appears, you need to select a period, the minimum is 1 hour, the maximum is the entire period of using the program. If you want to delete information about your actions from someone else's computer, you can choose a short period of time. Otherwise, I recommend a complete cleanup.

Then mark which data you no longer need and start the process. If you remember or write down all the logins, passwords and other important information in a safe place, then you can safely mark all the items. If you want to clear only the cache, check only this action. After starting, you need to wait a few minutes, especially if you have not been “cleaning” for several months.

Yandex Browser also has a second option for getting rid of accumulated files. We go to the same main menu by clicking on the 3 stripes at the top of the window, and go to the settings.

We go down to the very bottom of the window, click “Clear history”, make settings and delete unnecessary files.

Opera

Click on the red letter O in the left corner of the screen, move the mouse cursor over the inscription "History" and click on the item to clear the data.

Now specify the time range, the data to be deleted, and click the blue button at the bottom of the form. Wait for the system to cope with the task received.

Internet Explorer

This Internet browser is bundled with the Windows operating system up to version 8. The menu we need is hidden under the gear icon in the right corner. Click on it and select the "Safety" section (I have "Safety"), and then go to delete history.

Select the required data types and click the “Delete” button at the bottom of the form. Wait for the program to complete the task.

Microsoft Edge

This browser is now bundled with Windows 10 and is an improved version of Internet Explorer. To enter the menu, click on the 3 horizontally located dots at the top of the browser and select "Options".

A panel with different settings will appear on the right, scroll down to the text “Clear browser data”. Click on the button directly below it.

Then place the blue check marks next to the items you want. Also in this window you can ask the program to clear the cache after each use.

Safari

This browser is designed for Apple technology. Open the program and click on its name in the left corner of the screen. Then go to Settings, Add-ons and ask the program to display the Development menu.

After that, go to the tab that appears and select "Clear caches".

All temporary files will be deleted; Safari does not ask its users any clarifying questions.

The next time, when you need to clear the cache, you don't have to go so long, the Development tab will remain in the menu, unless you specifically hide it.

Conclusion

We've covered what the cache is, its purpose, and the reasons for cleaning it regularly. It is quite simple to delete data, the required actions are similar in all browsers under Windows and Mac OS. The main thing is to carefully consider the settings so as not to delete important information.

I hope the article was helpful and helped to solve your problem. If so, bookmark it or send it to your social media feed so you don't lose it. We discuss questions, suggestions and personal experience in the comments ..

All the best, friends.

The essence of the problem

Probably already faced with the fact that when the design or content was changed on the site (information was replaced), then go to the page, and you see the same thing there, no changes, although the programmer reported that the work had been done.

You have already visited this page before, so now you see not the current version of the page, but its cache copy, which is stored in order to more quickly serve it at the user's request.

The problem is solved - by clearing the cache, which allows you to download the page to your computer or smartphone up-to-date, with all the fresh changes.

What is website cache

The site cache is a collection of the most frequently used objects in the process of work: images, html-templates, js, css files, as well as the results of queries to the site database.

The process of caching resource objects into the cache is called site caching. The cache has its own storage period, usually no more than a month, after that, a new download of all files from the server occurs.

Caching works to increase the speed of loading pages of the site by users, in situations where typical data can not be loaded from the original source (from hosting), but loaded faster from the saved cache (history). That is, caching allows you not to download the same files several times, which decently speeds up the performance of the site.

What is caching for

The main purpose of the site cache, like any other, is to speed up the work of a web resource, program, service and other products that use it.

The increase in performance is achieved due to the fact that retrieving data from the cache takes much less time than requesting it from direct storage.

In addition, before placing data in the cache, they are often processed, compressed, reduced in size, which further increases the speed of work.

Applications interact with the cache as follows:

1. when the data is requested for the first time, they are entered into the cache;
2. when called again, they are already taken from the cache, and not from the source;

If the cache is empty or the data is considered obsolete, then it is requested along a direct path and this algorithm is repeated.

Site cache retention settings are stored in the configuration files of the web servers and the resource itself.

Types of caching

There are two types of caching, server and client (depending on the hosting capabilities and the site itself), sometimes these two types of caching are used together.

Server site caching

With this type of caching, files are stored on the server (hosting) side. For this, the caching mechanism inherent in the platform of your resource (CMS, framework, etc.) is used.

In this case, as a rule, static html pages and the results of queries in the database are cached. In this case, the cache of sites can be stored both in the form of separate files and placed in the RAM of your remote server.

On some high-load projects, even a separate server is allocated to store the site cache.

Site caching settings in this case are located in the code and special configuration files of your resource.

Client site caching

In this case, the site cache is stored on the client side, i.e. it is your users' web browser cache through which they access the resource (i.e. in the browser).

The browser cache stores only static files (those that do not change during operation) - these are css, js and media files (images, videos, etc.).

But these are not the cache settings on the hosting itself, as you might think at first. That is, the hosting itself does not create a cache of sites on the Internet, but simply tells the clients' web browsers how they need to cache.

Now the most interesting thing is how to reset the cache of the site?

• How to reset the cache to view the changes made on the site - open the site and the desired pages, just press the refresh button in the browser window or press the F5 key on the keyboard.
• If the first option does not help, then there is a universal method: while on the site page (in any browser), press the Ctrl + F5 key combination on the keyboard - this means an absolute reset of the cache and a full download of the site files again. This method is recommended to be advised by your client if they have problems with the project cache. A very simple and effective method, in rare cases, it may not help, and then we use the following options.
• Another cache option occurs when using special plugins and modules for CMS (content management system, engine, for example WordPress, Bitrix, OprnCart, etc.) - usually this cache is reset in the browser when the Ctrl + F5 keys are combined. If, you use such plugins in your site (plugins for each control system are completely different and there are quite a few of them), you need to generally throw off the project cache, then this is done from the site admin panel (for each plugin and engine this is done differently, the developer must explain how to do this in a particular case). It's not difficult, literally in two or three mouse clicks to get to the desired button in the admin panel and press it.
• There are complex caching at the server level, when using it, in rare cases, it may not be enough to use the Ctrl + F5 key combination, completely reset the cache in the browser or in the admin panel of the site, in this case, you need to ask the developer to reset the cache at the server and hosting level ( this happens very rarely).

We will also tell you how to clear the cache in the most popular browsers.

Clearing the cache in the Opera browser

Press the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + F12. A window will open in which we find a tab with advanced settings, then open the "History" section, select "clear" next to the "cache" item and click "Ok".

Clearing the cache in Google Chrome and other Chromium flavors

Let's use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Delete, which will bring up the history clear window. In it, we need to check the box next to the inscription: "Clear cache" and select the time period for which we will clear the cache. Most often, all-time cleaning is sufficient. Then we confirm the deletion? by clicking the corresponding button - "Delete data"

Clearing the cache in the Mozilla Firefox browser

All actions here are very similar to the previous browser. Again, press the combination Ctrl + Shift + Delete, then in the window that opens, select the "Delete" tab, and then select the "All" item. And finally, you need to put a check mark next to "Cash" and click on the "Clear now" button.

Deleting cache in Yandex browser

A very similar procedure as in the aforementioned Chrome. We need to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Delete, in the dialog box that has opened, it is necessary to mark the checkbox next to the "Clear cache" item, select how long we want to erase and click "Clear history".

Clearing the cache in Internet Explorer

We find the "Service" tab, in which we select "Internet Options".

We will open a window in which you will find the "General" tab. Find the browsing history in it and click the "Delete" button there.

A new window will open, in it we find the item "Temporary Internet files" and click "Delete files", after which we again confirm the deletion.

Conclusions and generalizations

Now you are able to clear the cache of a specific page of the site or the entire browser!

Caching - this is ensuring the speed of the site, speeding up the loading of the site and its pages, it is a very useful and effective tool.

The problems that can be minimal with the cache are the following:

• changes on the site are not displayed;
• the site page and objects on it are not displayed correctly.
• sometimes there may be problems with the site's shopping cart (feedback forms, online calculators), it is impossible to place a new order with a client, send a message to the site administrator, or calculate the order in the calculator.

In conclusion, it is worth noting that on most modern site engines and hosting, the cache is configured and reset very easily, without the use of special knowledge. That is, it is enough to press the key combination Ctrl + F5 on the keyboard, while being on the desired page of the site.

What is browser cache- this is the place where the files from the pages you viewed on the Internet are stored. When you visit any site, your browser makes a copy of the files of the viewed Internet resource to your computer. This is done in order to load the page much faster on the next visit.

It is necessary to clean the browser cache regularly, but if you do not do this and over time you begin to notice a decrease in free space on the local disk, or the desired site is simply not displayed correctly, then getting rid of the junk in the cache is inevitable.

Clearing temporary files in browsers is an irreplaceable and useful thing, if you clean up all the junk in your browser regularly, you will end up with a stably working Internet browser.

In this article I would like to show you how to clear the browser cache in the most common Internet browsers. Below is a list of how to properly delete the cache in the browser, select the desired instruction, and we begin the process of "rejuvenation":

How to clear the cache of the Google Chrome browser

Chrome is perhaps the most popular browser today, it won its fans for its speed of work and stability, plus the integration of Google services, it is very convenient. In google chrome, click on the settings menu

In the right corner of the screen, choose - "History and recent tabs" - "History" or press "Ctrl + H"

In the window that opens, click - "Clear the history"

In the next window, you must select what you want to clear. We choose "For all the time", then put a tick "Images and other files saved in the cache", and click on clear history. It just makes sense that if you do not uncheck the other checkboxes, the history of visits and races will be cleared, etc.

The cleaning of temporary files of the browser will begin, this will take some time, it all depends on the intensity and time of using your browser, you will have to wait a little. When finished, just close the settings window.

How to clear cache in a moss

In the Mozilla Firefox browser, there is also nothing difficult to delete the cache. To clear the cache in firefox, press the "Menu" button() on the right in the corner of the browser, then "Magazine" then click "Delete history" or keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Del.

You see the window for clearing the cache of Mozila Firefox. We choose Delete everything" and Clear cache", the rest of the checkboxes must be unchecked. After that, click - Delete Now

The browser cache has been cleared.

How to clear the Yandex browser cache

Yandex browser is gaining popularity among Internet users. The principle of clearing the browser cache from Yandex is a bit similar to clearing in chrome, and all because it works on the "engine" from Google chrome, but modified and has its fans. But modified. I personally do not use it myself. Z go to the "Menu" choose "Story" and further "History Manager" or simply press the key combination "Ctrl + H"

In the window that opens, click on the button "Clear the history…"

We get to the window that opens, where you need to select "For all the time" and "Files saved in the cache", then press the button "Clear the history"

That's the whole trick.

How to clear Internet Explorer cache

A less popular browser in everyday use, but nevertheless the browser is actively used. Clearing the cache in Internet Explorer is easy. Press in the upper right corner of the wool (
), Further Internet Options

In the tab "Are common" push the button "Delete"

A window will open with the history of the review in which you need to select - "Temporary Internet files and websites", the rest of the checkboxes must be removed, and click on the "Delete" button