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How to always load pages from website instead of history/cache in firefox 3.6?

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John
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When I edit a web page, like Craigslist I can't see my changes until I close all the Craigslist pages/tabs/windows and then close and reopen Firefox. Then open Craigslist and find my post and open it in order to see my changes.

There's a setting in IE to always open/load the web page from the website instead of opening it from the local cache/history but I can't find a setting in Firefox 3.6.18 to force opening the web page from the site.

Could someone tell me how to do this in Firefox?

Thanks in advance John

When I edit a web page, like Craigslist I can't see my changes until I close all the Craigslist pages/tabs/windows and then close and reopen Firefox. Then open Craigslist and find my post and open it in order to see my changes. There's a setting in IE to always open/load the web page from the website instead of opening it from the local cache/history but I can't find a setting in Firefox 3.6.18 to force opening the web page from the site. Could someone tell me how to do this in Firefox? Thanks in advance John

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cor-el
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Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache.

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

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This may not work for pages that use frames to display content.

John
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Thanks for the quick response. Hopefully this does the trick. Changed the browser.cache.check_doc_frequency to "1" in about:config.