Firefox Open Most Current Version

  • Natalia
  • 19th May 2018

How do I set Firefox to always load the most current version of the website?

As a web and app developers, we always seek to improve our working environment. So many times in the past we’ve wasted hours on developing web or app project where applying changes did nothing:).

Several times our customers contacted us saying that the changes they’ve requested have not been submitted online – frustrating.
We all know that 90% of the time this is down to the cache and individual browser settings. We love developing our web projects using Firefox Developers Edition. Therefore today we will show you how to set the Firefox browser to always show you the latest version of your web pages.

Step 1

Open your Firefox browser and in the URL address bar type – about:config

about config firefox

 

Step 2

The Browser will take you to message alert page, don’t worry this is standard procedure. Please accept the risk – you doing notting wrong 🙂 .

firefox alert page

 

Step 3

A new window will open with the list of permissions and settings for the Firefox. In this window please use the search bar to search for “browser.cache.check_doc_frequency”. Simply type in the search “cache” and this should be the first option.

search for cache firefox

Step 4

Standard frequency is set to 3. Please double click this line and new (smaller) window will popup where you will be able to change the above.
We recommend setting it to 1.

change firefox frequency

Step 5

There is no option to save your amendments, just restart your browser and you’re Done 🙂

firefox changed cache

 

Some sources are referring to changing “browser.cache.memory.enable” in the same setting as above. However, we experienced this to be an only a temporary solution!