How to clear your browser cache

A browser cache is a temporary storage area in memory or on disk that holds your most recently downloaded web pages. When browsing the web, as you jump from page to page, caching those pages allows you to quickly go back to a page without having to re-download it. In this help guide, we will show you how to clear your browser caching. 

Most of the time web caching is effective and improves your online experience as the loading of web pages is faster. A downside of this can be that the website provides a "stale" copy of a webpage when an updated version is needed.

Below are the steps on how to clear your browser cache in some of the more common browsers:

Google Chrome

1. Open your Chrome browser. 
2. Click on the Chrome menu icon seated towards the right end, besides the address bar.
3. Navigate to Clear browsing data
   
   
   
   
4. A pop-up will appear on your screen. Here, you can select, not just cache, but any browsing data that you wish to delete.
5. Tick marks the option reading Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files and uncheck all others. In order to clear the cache completely, we suggest that you select the beginning of time from the drop-down. Click on Clear browsing data when done.
   
   

Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge
2. In the upper right corner, click the small ... (just below the x) and choose Settings.
   
   
   
   
3. In the left-hand menu, select Privacy Search and Services.
4. Scroll down to Clear browsing data and select Choose what to clear
   
   
5. Select Cached data and files and Cookies and other site data
   
   
   
   
6. Click the Clear History button.

Safari

1. In the Safari menu bar, click the Safari option.
2. Click the Clear History link.
3. In the Clear drop-down menu, select the time range where you want to clear browsing data.
4. Click the Clear History button.

Firefox

1. From the History menu, select Clear Recent History.
2. From the Time range to clear: drop-down menu, select the desired range; to clear your entire cache, select Everything.
3. Next to "Details", click the down arrow to choose which elements of the history to clear; to clear your entire cache, select all items.
4. Click Clear Now.
5. Exit/quit all browser windows and re-open the browser.