Clear cached JavaScript includes in Firefox

Question

I\'m working on JavaScript for a site, developing with Firefox, and when I refresh the page, I don\'t see my changes. The JavaScript file is in an external file. I reloaded and

Answer 1

• The web developer toolbar add-on has an option to let you disable caching.
• Firebug also does this. It is in the menu of the Net panel and is called Disable Browser Cache.

To bypass cache for one time in Firefox:

• Click the reload button while holding the shift key.
• Ctrl+F5
• Ctrl+Shift+R or Cmd+Shift+R
• for other browsers

Some web hosting services do cache the page server-side. When bypassing cache, web browsers will send a header to tell the server that it should not respond with the cached data.