The hard refresh
Tweety Cat wrote me recently with this problem:
For the past several hours on the blog I can see a partial comment on the right under most recent comments, but when I click on it in order to read the whole thing, it does not show. And yes, I've refreshed, gone out and come back, etc. Once before I'd been frequently checking without seeing anything new, then suddenly there are a bunch of new posts and replies to the posts that hadn't even been showing for me.
The solution to this and similar problems is what's called a "hard refresh." You hold down the shift key while you click on "refresh." That's the symbol with one or two curvy arrows at the top of your browser.
Comments
This does not work with Explorer. I have no curvy arrows. Shift+F5 yields no response.
Look up by your URL. You should have two green curvy arrows next to the STOP icon. Someone else could explain this better than me. EL
Posted by: Eve | June 15, 2009 1:47 PM
Someone else could explain this better than me.
No, they couldn't.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2009 2:05 PM
And to think when I called up this post, I thought I'd be reading about a new tangy alcoholic summer drink
Posted by: hungry eyes | June 15, 2009 2:12 PM
Real men don't use icons.
To reload in Opera and IE you may use F5, curvy arrow button [Reload button], or the more macho CTRL-R. None of those reload functions work in either browser – unless the page you are viewing has recently added a comment. One still gets old versions of Most Recent Comments. Adding SHIFT to any of those six possible methods also fails to yield fresh data upon reload.
Posted by: VoodooPork ■|:o) | June 15, 2009 2:14 PM
■|:o), I use Control-R but I pretend I use F5 because I prefer not to have to explain that the two accomplish the same function.
Oh! Wait! There's (what looks like) a piece of paper with opposite arrows. Hmmm.
Posted by: Eve | June 15, 2009 2:21 PM
I just got a new Mac installed. I think my refresh button is a single curvy arrow. No universal design, I guess.
Posted by: Dahlink | June 15, 2009 2:44 PM
EL's suggestion, written in language even I could understand, worked fine for me. I even knew where the refresh button was! Ahh, it takes so little to make me happy these days.
Posted by: Tweety Cat | June 15, 2009 3:17 PM
Addendum:
CTRL-R works as a hard refresh or reload in Opera and IE for every site except this one. I stripped all the tool bars and icons off of my Opera browser, it's just the filename bar with favicons. I'm running free like a naked jungle boy.
Posted by: VoodooPork ■|:o) | June 15, 2009 4:42 PM
Brane bleech, plz!
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Posted by: El Generalissimo | June 15, 2009 5:18 PM
Hi, EL are you using a MAC? If so i'm not sure.
They make me work on a PC at work, but I have a Mac at home. EL
Posted by: billy butterbean | June 16, 2009 1:53 AM
I'm running free like a naked jungle boy.
My mind's eye is bleeding.
Posted by: Eve | June 16, 2009 9:01 AM
The real problem is your IS folks are implementing new web pages and have got everything screwed up! There is a new home page and the comments box for main page articles only allows about a sentence and a half.
And it made me reregister - totally incompetent - why is the Sun alawys geeting the B or C team?
If the business world where we depend on customer linkage, we would hung our IS group out to dry and then replace them!
Posted by: EdG | June 16, 2009 10:19 AM
I can't stop thinking about this, sorry in advance.
So this hard refresh thing is all about cached pages. I get that. The so-called hard refresh (why ever do anything less?) works just fine on the main content of the page but not on the MRC box. Given the sick number of files used to create the page, I have to conclude that there is a problem in with the web programming. I'm probably wrong but I feel better now. Anybody want to go our back for a cigarette break?
Posted by: VoodooPork ■|:o) | June 16, 2009 12:51 PM
Woo hoo, I'm naked and running free. Hey, I just ran past a woman bleeding out of her eyes. I wonder what she did wrong? Woo hoo. Now that's what I call a hard refresh.
Posted by: VoodooPork ■|:o) | June 16, 2009 12:56 PM
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Posted by: omega 3 | September 29, 2009 8:39 AM
Shill at 8:39 AM!
Posted by: hmpstd | September 29, 2009 8:46 AM