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I am a web designer and every time I make changes I have to clear my history to see the changes. Is there a setting I can change to fix this?

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I am a web designer and every time I make changes to my website I have to go in and clear my history so that the changes show up. Is there a setting that I can change so that I do not have to do this every time??

I am a web designer and every time I make changes to my website I have to go in and clear my history so that the changes show up. Is there a setting that I can change so that I do not have to do this every time??

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You need to change the cache settings on your web page, if you don't want Firefox to cache your page.

The easiest way to do this is to use a tag for the cache-control header. You can search Google to find tutorials: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache-control+meta+tag

cor-el
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You can reload the page and bypass the cache with: 

* Press and hold  Shift  and left-click the  Reload  button.
* Press  Ctrl  +  F5  or press  Shift  +  Ctrl  +  R  (Windows,Linux)
* Press  Shift  +  Cmd  +  R  (MAC)

See Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly and Use mouse shortcuts to perform common tasks in Firefox