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I try to clear the chrome browser cache using Add-ons. I am developing as a site using JSP with java, I need to clear the browser cache for the security reason. I tried many ways to clear the cache but none seems to work. Any ideas? Please let me know..

sathish anish
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  • There's already an answer that might help you - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8155064/how-to-programmatically-empty-browser-cache – Gigacore Sep 19 '17 at 06:36

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Cache.delete()

can be used for new chrome, firefox and opera.

try it please in js File

Ghanshyam Dekavadiya
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There's no way a browser will let you clear its cache. It would be a huge security issue if that were possible. This could be very easily abused - the minute a browser supports such a "feature" will be the minute I uninstall it from my computer.

What you can do is to tell it not to cache your page, by sending the appropriate headers or using these meta tags.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8155121/5437621

mrid
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    This is not true. you can via `caches.keys()` and `caches.delete(cacheKey)` as described in detail here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Cache – Dane Jordan Jan 07 '20 at 02:43
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  • call window.location.reload(true) for a ctrl+F5 from script.
  • In the new version of browsers Cache.delete()
  • in meta tag
<meta http-equiv='cache-control' content='no-cache'>
<meta http-equiv='expires' content='0'>
<meta http-equiv='pragma' content='no-cache'>
  • in jQuery $('html[manifest=saveappoffline.appcache]').attr('content', '');
Farhad Bagherlo
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