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Hard Refresh

by openaddons.com

v3.0.0 Updated Jan 22, 2025 23.87KiB
CWS
10K
Users
★ 4.41
22 reviews
#1125
of 49.5K
developer
#98 of 3.5K
⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

DESCRIPTION: This extension will simply add a "Hard Refresh" button to the toolbar. OPTIONS: * Select what to be cleared before reload: -- Empty cache -- Delete cookies -- Clear file systems -- Clear indexed data -- Clear local storage data -- Clear plugin data -- Clear service workers -- Clear webSQL data (These options will affect only the site in the current tab) * Select different icon (useful if you want to make it "fit" your Chrome theme). You can even add your own icon. * You can add the hard refresh button too the context menu too To change the options -- right-click on the extension icon and select "Options". PERMISSIONS: This extension doesn't need any special (heavy) permissions. It can just read your current tab url, clear the cache, storage etc. for the current tab and if you want it can add itself to the context menu
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Reviews (4 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-06
Tony Henrich

It's doesn't work all the time. Today I kept wondering why the Sources tab was showing the old version of my code and I kept using this extension. I thought there was an issue with the web server. When I used Chrome's hard reload, I got the new version! This extension is frustrating when you think you're loading the new version of your JS. Going to look for an extension that's 100% reliable.

★★☆☆☆2025-09-21
Jeroen van Wamelen

It doesn't actually clear cache.

★★☆☆☆2021-05-09
KingLich

Can't see the button. Don't know why.

★★★☆☆2022-11-28
Chris B

Unfortunately the option to empty the cache storage does not work every time which makes the extension useless for some web dev purposes. The basic hard refresh is helpful in many other cases though!

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension browsingData Can delete browsing history and data contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 3.0.0
Updated Jan 22, 2025
Size 23.87KiB
First Seen Mar 23, 2026