Can I clear a webapp in Chrome?

web-applications google-chrome manifest
acuth picture acuth · May 25, 2010 · Viewed 24.3k times · Source

I've written a webapp that has a manifest that includes all the javascript and images that it requires. Unfortunately, even when I change the manifest file, it doesn't seem to reload the javascript.

Is there a way to delete the webapp completely from Chrome? Clearing the browser cache doesn't seem to work.

I'm running Chrome 5.0.375.55 on a Mac.

Any help very gratefully received.

Answer

digitaldonkey picture digitaldonkey · Mar 3, 2011

Adding a get parameter like ?foo=12345 will treat your file as a different one and therefore recache it, but NOT clear any cache for the existing file.

Type:

chrome://appcache-internals/

and you'll get Lucky :)

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