Running out of disk space? Can't stop your browser from loading an out-of-date page or an image? Your browser taking longer to exit? Your favorite Java applet is misbehaving?
One of the answers to all of the above questions may be to clear your browser's cache. Almost all web browsers maintain a local copy of web pages and other related items on your disk or memory to speedup reloading of previously visited pages from the Internet. This time saver may get bigger and slower over long periods of time. If this is causing problems, try clearing your browser cache as follows.
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Navigator 3.x:
- Select "Options | Network Preferences..." from the main menu
- Change to the "Cache" tab
- Click on "Clear Memory Cache Now" and "Clear Disk Cache Now" buttons to clear memory and disk cache
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Communicator 4.x:
- Select "Edit | Preferences..." from the main menu
- Change to the "Advanced | Cache" section
- Click on "Clear Memory Cache" and "Clear Disk Cache" buttons to clear memory and disk cache
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Explorer 3.x:
- Select "View | Options..." from the main menu
- Change to the "Advanced" tab
- Click on "Settings" button
- Click on "Empty Folder..."
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Explorer 4.x:
- Select "View | Internet Options..." from the main menu
- Change to the "General" tab
- Click on "Delete Files" button
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Explorer 5.x:
- Select "Tools | Internet Options..." from the main menu
- Change to the "General" tab
- Click on "Delete Files" button
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America Online 3.x (with Explorer 3.x):
- Select "Members | Preferences" from the main menu
- Click on the "WWW" button
- Click on "Advanced..."
- Click on "Purge Cache" to clear the cache
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America Online 4.x:
- Select "My AOL | Preferences" from the main menu
- Click on the "WWW" button
- Change to the "General" tab
- Click on "Delete Files" button
