As you open website pages, you may notice over time that your browser becomes slower and slower. What to do about it? If these are not viruses (Trojans), then the issue is most likely a clogged browser cache.
Browser cache- local copies of visited pages on the Internet on your computer
- pictures (.jpg, .gif, .png)
- style files (.css)
- javascript files (.js)
By accumulating data about tens or hundreds of pages visited, the cache becomes clogged and overflows. It's getting harder and harder for the browser to find desired page. It is in this case that you need to clean the storage area of cached files, that is, the cache.
There is a cache clearing operation in every browser. Let's take a closer look at the algorithm for performing it in the five most popular browsers.
1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. In the upper right corner we find an icon that looks like a gear and click with the left mouse button.
4. In the resulting window, select the “General” tab and click the “Delete” button.
5. Next, the program prompts us to select what we will delete (temporary files, passwords, security data, log, etc.) We check the boxes where we need to delete. Click the "Delete" button. The system deletes all cache files according to the selected settings. The end of the process will be signaled by a message at the bottom of the window.
6. By the way, the program allows you to manage the parameters for saving cache objects. This can be done by clicking the "Options" button in the "General" tab of the "Internet Options" window.
7. In this tab, you can, in particular, set the condition for checking new versions of cached pages.
1. Open Yandex Browser.
2. In the menu bar, click “Add-ons” and then “Browser Settings”.
3. In the menu of the window that opens, select the “History” command.
4. On the right side of the window there is the inscription “Clear history”. That's what we need, let's press it.
5. In the newly appeared window, the program asks for what period and what exactly needs to be deleted. Select the desired parameters and press the “Clear history” button at the bottom of the window.
1. Open Opera browser
2. At the bottom of the page is the main menu bar. Find the word “History” and click.
3. In the upper right corner, click the “Clear browsing history” button.
4. In a new window, we are asked, as in other browsers, to choose what exactly to clear and for what period.
5. Having selected, click the “Clear browsing history” button.
Cleaning their program can be done using the following algorithm.
1. Launch the FireFox browser
2. In the window that appears, in the top line on the right we find a small striped button
3. Click “Settings” (gear icon).
4. Having entered Settings, we see a new program window, in which we press the “Advanced” button.
5. Here, in the “Network” tab there is an option:
- Manage web content caching;
- Manage Offline Web Content and User Data;
6. We get rid of the contents of each of the items by pressing the two “Clear Now” keys in turn.
7. You can delete recent history and individual cookies in the privacy tab of the “Settings” window by clicking on the corresponding buttons.
Let's also consider the process of clearing the cache of another popular Chrome browser, the brainchild of Google.
1. Launch Google Chrome.
2. Find the striped icon in the upper right corner of the program: setting up and managing Google Chrome.
3. In the appeared additional window select the word “Stories” and follow it.
4. In the next small window, select “History” again and click with the left mouse button. A list of pages visited by the user appears.
5. By clicking the "Clear history" button.
Universal cache clearer for all browsers
This can be done by a well-known, powerful and popular file manager Total Commander. You can do this as follows.
1. Launch the Total Commander program.
2. In the window that appears, find and click the “Clear history” icon.
3. In the new service window of the program, in the rectangular field on the left, we see all the browsers installed on the system.
4. We can immediately start clearing the contents of all browsers by clicking the button of the same name.
5. And we can choose to mention any desired browser by clicking on the button with the appropriate name. For example, standard Internet Explorer.
6. Here we are free to choose to delete the history of favorites, cookies, browser data, and browser history. To complete some items, a system reboot will be required.
In addition to this program, there is also Clean Master - free program for cleaning your computer. The Russian interface and the ability to choose what exactly to clean make this program practically irreplaceable.
Thus, by selecting tabs with each browser, we can check the boxes next to the information that is to be deleted and start the procedure for cleaning all browsers in the system one by one from the window of just one program.
Not everyone knows about this, but there is one very simple and quick way to clear cache and cookies any browser. You only need to remember one keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Delete. While in any browser, hold down these three keys on the keyboard, and then all you have to do is choose what exactly to delete and for what period.
How to clear cache and cookies in Mozilla Firefox
So, let's press Ctrl+Shift+Del on the keyboard in the browser Mozilla Firefox. The following window will appear: 
Click on it “ Details” and uncheck the extra checkboxes if you want. Leave cookies and cache. Then, here at the top in the drop-down list, select: for what period to delete data (you can select “ All”).
After that, click the “ Delete now
That's all! In other browsers everything works similarly.
How to clear cache and cookies in Internet Explorer
IN Internet Explorer press on the keyboard Ctrl+Shift+Del. In the window that opens, leave the following flags:
- Temporary Internet and Website Files
- Cookies and website data
Then click the “ Delete" and wait for the operation to complete:
How to clear cache and cookies in Opera
In the browser Opera press on the keyboard Ctrl+Shift+Del. In the window that opens, select a period from the drop-down list (you can select “ from the very beginning"). Leave the flags below:
- Cookies and other site data
- Cached images and files
Then click the “ Clear browsing history” and wait for the operation to complete:
How to clear cache and cookies in Google Chrome
In the browser Google Chrome press on your keyboard Ctrl+Shift+Del. In the window that opens, select the period (you can “ during all this time"), then leave the flags:
- Cookies and other site and plugin data
- Images and other files saved in cache
After that, click the “ Clear the history” and wait for the operation to complete.
I think every PC user has come across such a concept as the browser cache, and has also heard that it needs to be cleaned periodically. But how to clear the browser cache and why do it at all?) We’ll talk about this in today’s article.
While you travel through the vast expanses of the Internet and surf sites through your browser, your browser, be it Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, etc., saves on HDD The PC caches certain data: pictures, sound files, technical site markup files, etc. This is done so that when you re-enter the same page or site, the data is not downloaded again from the server, but is quickly downloaded from your computer.
In this regard, an unpleasant situation often arises: the website page that you recently visited has already changed since your last visit (for example, its design has changed), but you continue to see its old version! Often, refreshing the page using the F5 key helps in these cases, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Google Chrome is very famous for this unpleasant feature, which is very reluctant to update the cache on its own, without user intervention.
Moreover, if you do not clear the browser cache for a long time, it will begin to take up a lot of space on your computer’s hard drive – up to several gigabytes! In addition, fragmentation of files on the disk will increase, and, consequently, the speed of the HDD will decrease.
How to clear browser cache? There is nothing complicated about it! Below you will find a description of keyboard shortcuts and actions for each type of browser, because they are slightly different.
Ctrl+Shift+Del >> Clear cache >> Clear history
Ctrl+Shift+Del >> Temporary Internet Files >> Delete
Opera
Ctrl+F12 >> Advanced >> History >> Disk cache >> Clear
Ctrl+Alt+E >> Clear
Perform the procedure of clearing the browser cache regularly - this will help you avoid many glitches that you periodically encounter. I also recommend that you read the rest of the list.
P.S. At my last job, clearing the cache of one of the applications was carried out so regularly and obligatory that we had a humorous name for this operation “clearing the cache”). First of all, if something was buggy, the testers asked: “Did you clear the cache and how long ago?”)
You can often hear the recommendation to “clear your browser cache.” This mainly needs to be done when the browser starts to work slowly or some sites are displayed incorrectly. For example, the page formatting is completely lost and instead of the website content you see something incomprehensible.
The first step in such cases is to simply refresh the page (F5), and if that 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 popular browsers as an example, as well as a universal solution using a special program.
How to clear Google Chrome browser cache
In Chrome, click on the upper right settings button and select “History” from the menu, or simply press “Ctrl+H”
In the next window we need to select what exactly we want to delete. To clear only the cache, leave one checkbox “Images and other files saved in the cache.” Don't forget to select "All the time". Click “Delete data”. All is ready.
Microsoft Edge
The Edge browser is a successor to IE, but its menu is completely different. Go to “Options”
Scroll to the “Clear browsing data” section
And click “Select what you want to clean”
We leave only “Cached data and files”.
Maxthon Cloud Browser
A very interesting browser, Maxthon, is gaining popularity. It is based on the chrome engine and many people find it more convenient and flexible. The cache is cleared here in almost the same way. Go to the menu and select “Clear browser history.” Well, then it’s already clear
Universal cleaning method – CCleaner
Go to the website, download and install the CCleaner program.
In principle, you can download the portable version and then no installation is required, you can immediately launch
By default the tab opens "Clean -> Applications", this is what we need. The program can work with the main browsers: Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. On the “Applications” tab, uncheck all the boxes except “Internet cache” and click “Cleanup”. For IE, go to the “Windows” tab and leave only “Temporary Internet files”. In general, CCleaner is very useful program, which allows you to remove a bunch of junk from your computer, but this is the topic of a whole article.
Why do you need a cache anyway?
When a browser loads a website, it stores it in its 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 don’t think that you can access previously viewed sites without access to the Internet, it won’t work that way. To do this you need in advance using special programs. But you can still get some information from the cache, for example.
When using browsers, data from the web pages you visit is cached (if caching is enabled on the site). Thesedata is saved in a special folderon the disk of your PC. And when you go to the site for the second time, the browser checks the content of the site and displays the changed information, and takes all the other information from the cache folder. This is necessary anduseful for reducing the load on the site server(since the browser does not make a request to the server every time you open the site, but simply uses the saved cache data), and of courseFor best download site. But it happens that cached files take up a lot of memory, or because of the cache, the content of the site is displayed incorrectly (since the content is pulled from the cache). In this case, you need to clear the cache.
In this article we will look at how to clear the cache in:
Google Chrome
1 .Launch the Google Chrome browser.
2. Click on the three dots (upper right corner), after the window pops up, click – ‘History’.
3 . Select – ‘Clear history’.
4.
Next, you can specify the time range for which you want to delete the cache and select the elements that you want to clear. And click – ‘Delete data’.
5
.You can also select – ‘ Additional settings’ and more precisely indicate the elements that need to be cleaned. And click – ‘Delete data’.
Internet Explorer
Hot keys (for one page) for OS Windows – Crtl + F5. To open a window immediately to clear the cache – Ctrl + Shift + Del.
1
.We go into Internet browser Explorer, select the element – ‘Service’.
2. And immediately click on the ‘Security’ menu.
3 .In the pop-up window, in the list provided, select the function – ‘Delete browser history’.
4 .The last step is to check the box next to the item: ‘Temporary Internet and website files’.
Mozilla Firefox
Hot keys (for one page) OS Windows – Crtl+F5, for Mac OS X – Cmd+R. To immediately open a window to clear the cache, use Ctrl + Shift + Del.
1.
Let's go to Firefox browser and open the ‘Journal’ menu.
2. Select the item – ‘Security’.
4.
To delete the cache, select ‘Delete data’.
5 .Select the data that you want to delete and click on ‘Delete’. After which a window will pop up for you to confirm the data clearing, just to complete the deletion, click on ‘Delete now’.
Hot keys (for one page) OS Windows – Crtl+F5, for Mac OS X – Cmd+R. To immediately open a window to clear the cache, use Ctrl + Shift + Del.
1 .Go to the Opera browser and click on the ‘History’ icon.
3 .IN open window We tick the items from which you want to delete data and click on the ‘Delete data’ button.
4. To view the list of files in more detail, select ‘Advanced’, check the required items and also click on ‘Delete data’.
In Safari, clearing the cache is quick and easy.
Hot keys for OS Windows – Crtl+R, for Mac OS X – Cmd+Alt+E.
1 .Open the Safari browser and click on the gear. In the open window, select ‘Reset Safari’.
2 .Tick the box next to ‘Delete all website data’ or select other options. To complete the process, click on the ‘Reset’ button.
Now let's move on to deleting cache on smartphones.
Clearing cache on Android OS
(the interface is taken as an example Samsung phone j530).
Depending on the browser, the removal will be almost the same as for a PC. For clarity, we will consider for frequently used Google browser Chrome.
1
.Launch the browser on your phone, click on the three dots in the upper right corner and select – ‘History’.
2. After opening the window, click on ‘Clear history’.
3 .Similarly, select the time range, click the checkboxes opposite the elements whose content you want to delete, and finally click on the button – ‘Delete data’.’
on iOS
1. Open the ‘Settings’ menu, then click on the item – ‘Safari’.
2.
And go to ‘Clear history and website data’.
3. The last step is to click on ‘Clear. history and data'.
It is very convenient to clear the cache (for one page) using a hotkey combination (see table below). This method saves a lot of time.
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