Can You Force a Refresh on Safari?

 

I love Safari - I think it's the best browser to use if you have a Mac . . . unless you're a web developer. It's light, clean and performs well but there is a BIG problem with it if you're trying to use it to test a website.

Whether you're using a proxy server or not Safari has a nasty habit of caching web pages (unless you use the appropriate headers which is not always what you want to do). All browsers do this but with browsers such as IE and Firefox you can do a force-refresh - a refresh that tells the browsers and the proxy server to reload the page. As silly as it sounds Safari currently does not have this feature. So, if you're updating a site live on the server you will see the old version.

So, if you're developing sites on a Mac use Camino or Firefox . . . you can force a refresh on them. Let's hope Apple see fit to add this feature to the next release of Safari.

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