To hard refresh safari, there is one simple way to do it: Hold the Control key, press the F5 key. Or, hold the Control key, click the Refresh button. Thanks for reading and we hope this helps anyone who is looking to hard refresh their browser. Is there a key command in OS X to refresh a browser window, like F5 in Windows? In addition to Diavonex's suggestion, you can refresh the Safari browser's page by scrolling up to the top of the page, then pressing the circular arrow in the address bar (where the website URL is displayed). This will refresh/reload the page. I don't know if it will help in your case but that's how the page is refreshed in Safari for iOS. Basically, I want to remap a single action key (F5) so that it will refresh browsers and windows without the Fn key, but leave all of the other action keys as they are. The goal is to, without using Fn key, be able to refresh pages as well as adjust volume/brightness/video playback. On Refreshyourcache you can find tutorials on how to refresh the cache from your browser. Clearing Cache Memory. To ensure you see the latest version of a site you need to clear the cache memory. This is done by doing a force refresh by pressing both control and F5 buttons simultaneously on your keyboard (depending on your browser).
Until recently, I ran Firefox on my Mac with the cache disabled because I found it annoying that my tweaks weren’t updated when refreshing a work in progress. My usual Control/Command+F5 wouldn’t work for me. Being used to Firefox on Windows, I’d often forget and find myself powering up VoiceOver.
To clarify, on a Mac, Control+F5 is not a hard refresh as it is on Windows. In the majority of cases, the Command key replaces the Control key when converting Windows shortcuts to Mac ones. For example, Control+T to open a new tab under Windows is Command+T on a Mac.
Logic dictates that a hard refresh should be Command+F5 on my Mac. Indeed, the Firefox documentation on keyboard shortcuts shows that Command+F5 should refresh overriding the cache, but that loads VoiceOver for me (OS X 10.4 or later).
The long and short of it
I now use Command+R for refresh and Command+Shift+R for when I need to do a hard refresh. As you’d expect, you can replace Command with Control for the Windows equivalent. And now I can turn my cache back on and save some time and bandwidth!
Of course, I could have set my own keyboard shortcuts! But then I’d have to set them up on all installations of Firefox I use.
Related reading
- OS X Browser Shortcut Cheat Sheet at The Apple Blog
Nov 13, 2020 • Filed to: Solve Mac Problems • Proven solutions
What is the most annoying thing about the Internet? Many of us would agree that the most frustrating thing is when the page doesn't load properly or it takes too much time for changes to apply (i.e. connecting to servers, checking recent statistics, etc). The quick access to all the necessary information is the main reason why the Internet has become such an important thing in our lives. We value it as something granted and when it somehow fails to satisfy our needs, many negative emotions usually appear. In this article we are not going to be too technical, instead, we will briefly overview the main ways of how to refresh a webpage for both Mac and Windows users, as it usually helps to deal with any loading problems. Also, in the second part, the procedure of 'hard refresh' for the main browsers will be explained.
What is the webpage refreshing?
Essentially, when you refresh the webpage, your browser pulls the date from its cache.
It helps when some of the information didn't load correctly or was missing originally. Practically, we often do that because while we were using the webpage, some changes might have occurred and the content has changed as well. Many pages have an 'automatic refresh' feature, but not all of them. This operation is especially useful when you are waiting for an important e-mail or the most recent data, which might be changing every second (for example, when checking the number of views on YouTube channel – it might be changing constantly).
How to refresh a webpage?
Usually, web browsers have a 'Refresh' button somewhere on the screen. It normally looks something like this:
The button is located somewhere next to the 'Address Bar'. Clicking on that will make your browser refresh the webpage.
Alternatively, you can refresh the feed simply by pressing the 'F5' button. This works in all modern Internet browsers in Windows.
How To Set F5 Key For Refresh Mac Computer
If you are a proud Mac user, instead of 'F5' you need to press 'Command + R' buttons while in the browser:
The third possible way is simply by clicking somewhere on the website with the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON (RMB) and choosing 'Reload'.
Hard Refresh
Though, in some cases, your browser will show an old version of a page rather than the most recent one. Consequently, you might not see the updated web site and miss something important. This happens because the browser, in order to perform data loading as quickly as possible, might load it from its cache, which is stored on your hard drive rather than from the Web. In order to deal with this problem, we use Hard Refresh – clearing your cache for a particular website and forcing your browser to use data from the Web. Though, this process takes more time than the regular refresh. In different browsers it might be done in slightly different ways:
Refresh Screen F5
Google Chrome for Windows:
Hold 'Ctrl' and click the 'Reload' button; alternatively, hold 'Ctrl' and press 'F5'.
Google Chrome for Mac:
Hold 'Shift' and click 'Reload' button; alternatively, hold 'Cmd' + 'Shift' and press 'R'.
Mozilla Firefox for Windows:
Hold 'Ctrl' and press 'F5'; alternatively, hold 'Ctrl' + 'Shift' and press 'R'.
Mozilla Firefox for Mac:
Hold 'Shift' and click 'Reload' button; alternatively, hold 'Cmd' + 'Shift' and press 'R'.
Safari for Windows:
Hold 'Ctrl' and press 'F5'.
Safari for Mac:
Hold 'Shift' and click 'Reload' button; alternatively, hold 'Cmd' + 'Shift' and press 'R'.
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