How can I force a hard reload in Chrome for Android

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Riesling picture Riesling · Sep 2, 2013 · Viewed 173.9k times · Source

In Chrome for desktop I have options in the dev tools to disable cache completely when dev tools are opened and I have the options to manually do a hard reload when long clicking on the reload button (with dev tools open).

Is there any such technique for Chrome for Android? I didn't find any setting. What can I do when I want to force the browser to download some javascript or css file instead of using a cached one when developing?

Answer

Konrad Dzwinel picture Konrad Dzwinel · Sep 3, 2013

I'm using window.location.reload(true) according to MDN (and this similar question) it forces page to reload from server.

You can execute this code in the browser by typing javascript:location.reload(true) in the address bar.

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