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Bang up to date Web pages

Not sure you’ve got the very latest version of the Web page you’re on? Here’s how to be sure!

What a lot of folks don’t realise is that there are more levels of caching between a Web server and you than you can count. The easiest way to be sure that what you’ve got onscreen is the very latest version of what you want to be looking is to simply press F5 – the fifth function key.

This works in AOL (all versions that are current), Internet Explorer (all versions) and Netscape, as well as most other browsers.

What pressing F5 does is to force the server to send you the version it’s got, and also instructs your browser to bypass any caches on the route. That way you’re guaranteed to get the very latest copy of the page you’re viewing.

Don’t forget – press F5!

 


 

Iain Laskey


 
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