E Street recommends the Internet browser software “FireFox” or Google’s “Chrome” (and add Safari for Macs) for the best speed, reliability and performance. For Windows use the latest “Edge” and if Internet Explorer is used ..only vers 11 or later. You can download FireFox here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and Chrome here: https://www.google.com/chrome
Occasionally web browsers need to have their “cache” flushed for various reasons… usually to view changes when updating page content in CMS or working with new website designs or to improve performance. Here is how to do it:
INTERNET EXPLORER
To flush cache in Internet Explorer (Vers 7 thru 11):
Go to “Tools – Internet Options”
Click the “General” tab, under the “Browsing History” section click “Delete”
Then next to “Temporary Internet Files” click “Delete Files” and “yes”
Other recommended settings:
You should also check to see how large the cache can be:
1) Under the “Browsing History” section click on “Settings”
We usually advise folks not have have their cache set much over 100-250MB
For Web Designers and CMS website users – we recommend you also set
On the “General” tab, under the “Browsing History” section click on “Settings” and select the option for “Check for Newer version of stored pages” …to… “Every Time I visit the page”
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FIREFOX
To flush cache in FireFox:
Go to “Tools – Clear recent History”
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CHROME
Click on the Settings Icon (wrench icon) and “History”
A page will open the browser with browsing history
Click on “Clear Browsing Data”
another way to access the settings is load chrome://settings/ in your URL bar and enter.
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SAFARI
Open up the Safari Web browser.
Click on the heading ‘Safari’ and choose ‘Empty Cache’ from the pull down menu. It will then ask you if you really want to delete the cache.
Click on ‘Empty’ if you are ready to clear Safari’s memory cache.
Close and reopen the Safari Web browser.
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* Older Internet Explorer (version 6.x – 9.x) ..NOTE- for security reasons you should NOT be using this browser. If you are you probably should take your computer offline or immediately switch to FireFox http://www.mozilla.com or Chrome
….but if you need to flush cache in it:
1) Go to the Tools menu
2) Scroll down and select Internet Options
3) Make sure you are on the General tab
4) Click the Delete Files in the Temporary Internet Files section
You should also check to see how large the cache can be:
1) Under the Temporary Internet Files, click on Settings
We usually advise folks not have have their cache set much over 10-50MB of disk space. Much larger than that and your computer will slow down because it has to search through all of these files in order to display a page to you.
