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Forum strangeness with Google Chrome

amirm

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Hello all. It seems that there is a problem with Chrome where pages are cached and not refreshed. As a result, old pages keep showing which makes it look like your posts are disappearing. They are not. They just don't show up in Chrome. It hit me an hour ago so I tested Edge browser and it was fine.

I was messing around to fix the caching where all of a sudden, it started to work correctly again.

If you are hit by it, and have the option of another browser, use that. There has been no system changes so I don't think the problem is on the server.

Report here if you see the problem.

If you have to use Chrome, you can keep the control key down and hit F5 to force a refresh on Windows. Alas, you have to do this on every page and all the time so it is not a good fix. Just shows whether you have the problem.
 

Webninja

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I presume this is desktop chrome, not Android, as I have not noticed this on mobile.
 

Vincent Kars

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My "feeling"is dat as long as you are in a session, Chrome looks at the cache without checking for a newer version on the webserver.
F5 in general resolves this, <CTRL>F5 if it persist.
 
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Usually that works but in this case it did not. Hitting F5 and going into developer option with default of cache off did get around it. In my experience of developing a few web pages, it is very difficult to disable to cache in Chrome. It ignores all HTML directives practically.
 

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I was having issues on several fora yesterday but this evening it seems to be working correctly again.
 

RayDunzl

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Wasn't my crack.
 

DonH56

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Maybe it was a fissure?

Really hope so. Vacillating between images of white powder and squatting plumbers, neither image is one I needed in my mind...
 
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