Clear cache for specific domain name in chrome

Question

I want to clear the cache for a specific domain name in Chrome. Is there an extension or other method that I can use to do this?

score 443 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 21 '23 at 23:41

UPDATE: As of Chrome version 110.0.5481.104, you can perform the following steps:

F12 > Chrome Developer Tools > Application tab > Storage in left tree > Select the data items to clear, then click Clear site data.

This may be a quicker/simpler way:

Press F12 to open Chrome Developer Tools (will pop up from bottom)
Click settings "gear" icon in top-right corner
Under Network (previously General) check Disable cache
Reload page and re-enable caching by un-checking this box

score 131 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 18 '16 at 17:22

After opening up the developer tools (usually by pressing F12) Click + Hold on the "Reload Page" button. From the popup list, choose "Empty Cache and Hard Reload".

Not sure this clears the cache for the entire domain. But probably satisfies 90% of the use cases of people that visit this SE question.

Note: In some cases this will NOT open the popup list. This is because the page isn't cached at that time, so the menu is not invoked.

score 58 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 22 '21 at 07:23

Here's how to delete Chrome's cookies selectively by domain or subdomain:

go to chrome://settings/siteData (earlier versions: chrome://settings/content/cookies)
type the domain name in the search box
click delete

More details here:

http://oxid-blog.euroblaze.de/miscellaneous/delete-google-chrome-cookies-selectively-by-domain/

This can't however select cookies by web folders, e.g. www.domain.com/folder1.

score 12 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 18 '15 at 22:43

12

Press control shift i (or command shift i on OS X) to open Dev Tools.
Right-click the reload button next to the address bar.
Choose: "Empty Cache and Hard Reload".

answered Nov 18 '15 at 22:43

Joseph Hansen

4,510

qwertzguy · Answer 5 · 2020-03-25T17:45:28.753

To delete all data (cache + cookies) for all subdomains of a domain:

Go to chrome://settings/siteData
Type domain name in search box (not the one at the top, the small search box top right)
Either:
1. Click the trash icon button for each result
2. Click 'Remove All Shown' button

This will delete all site data for those sites, including cookies and cache.

Nice thing about this technique is that you can easily clear site data for all subdomains of a domain.

The other way to access this setting screen is:
Three dots menu > Settings > Advanced (at bottom) > Content Settings (under Privacy and Security) > Cookies (yes, name is misleading) > See all cookies and site data

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 08 '16 at 08:07

3

In three steps:

F12 (open developer tools)
F1 (go to settings)
Under Preferences / Network uncheck Disable cache (while DevTools is open)

Note that you can un-dock the DevTools if you would rather keep them as a separate window while open.

answered Nov 08 '16 at 08:07

Peque

1,079

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered May 04 '11 at 11:16

Wrench -> Preferences -> Under the Hood -> 
Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance

Disable it - thus dumping the whole application cache - reload the affected page - and then re-enable. If this happens often or doesn't clear the issue, some cache upstream from chrome is the problem and you should probably leave chrome's disabled.

Selective invalidation of an application layer cache (which is done strictly for application speed) since chrome has "no business" taking over for the system is might be an answer to some issue, but it isn't a very good answer.

(Lest you get huffy about my "no business" statement, I use pre-fetching myself as I like the zippiness, proper or not)

Nelu · Answer 8 · 2019-01-20T04:56:41.810

1

Deleting the history entries will work in many cases: (Mac)

Cmd+Y (Open History)
Search for your domain
Check all the entries. Unfortunately there's no check all button at the moment. You don't have to click the checkboxes though, clicking on the time works too.
Click Remove selected items

edited Jan 20 '19 at 04:56

answered Mar 08 '16 at 15:49

Nelu

573

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 27 '16 at 04:45

Webpack was caching a previous project for me and I need parts of the caching to work so I couldn't use incognito. The top 3 solutions didn't work for my case. What did work and was quick enough to implement was clicking Resources tab in Developer tools, unfolding Cache Storage, and right-clicking to delete the cached data.

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 08 '22 at 05:11

Just clear cache for one site (but leave cookies, local storage, session storage) - F12 to open DevTools, then click back to main window, right click on refresh button, "Empty Cache and Hard Reload"

Clear everything for one site (cache, cookies, local storage, session storage) - F12 to open DevTools, Application tab, "Storage" item in the left menu, click the "Clear site data" button