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Thread ID: 51309 2004-11-17 08:00:00 What keys make a page do a full refresh? beetle (243) Press F1
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293250 2004-11-17 08:00:00 Now ive been told this before and cant remember by Jen C i think but do you think its gonna work here....nuh ah ah.

something and f5?

help as my page is going real wonky.
browser firefox.
XP

been a bad day, and nothing is working nicely for me....... X-(
beetle
beetle (243)
293251 2004-11-17 08:01:00 should be Shift+F5 somebody (208)
293252 2004-11-17 08:02:00 hmm... shift F5 doesn't work in firefox.. Control+F5??? somebody (208)
293253 2004-11-17 08:02:00 No just F5 in IE and firefox. F5 works here for both Spacemannz (808)
293254 2004-11-17 08:09:00 LOL
i had tried everything but just one key..... every other combination i could think of..... and its only F5.....
totally blonde logic here.

:^O
Thanxs so much.

beetle
beetle (243)
293255 2004-11-17 08:12:00 Plain old F5 does a normal refresh.

If you really want to do a full refresh, use Ctrl+F5 - it avoids any cache on your computer and grabs a fresh copy of images and the like.
agent (30)
293256 2004-11-17 08:13:00 The theory is that f5 refrehses the page but will still display only what the ISP have stored in their cache,while ctrl + f5 will send the request as far back as the server the page is hosted on and garentee you are viewing the most current version. Desperado (6407)
293257 2004-11-17 08:14:00 hmm....maybe its only the local cache then,i'll have to look into that... Desperado (6407)
293258 2004-11-17 08:23:00 I'm not sure either, really.

I was just assuming that Ctrl+F5 will tell your browser to avoid the local cache, but if it's cached further out than that it'd still receive a cached version.

That was on the presumption that both F5 and Ctrl+F5 send out a normal request, but plain old F5 sees the images cached locally and loads them, so in effect only the text is changing.
agent (30)
293259 2004-11-17 08:29:00 F5 tells Firefox to load (and if it has a cached version available, then it loads the cached version).
Ctrl-R for Firefox will force it to refresh the page
Wood-Chuck (6195)
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