How come CTRL+F5 works but not just the regular refresh method?

[Syringer]

It seems to be that what CTRL+F5 does is reload a page without looking in the cache, but isn't that what the regular method of refreshing supposed to do also or what?

 

[AFB]

The regular method use the cache ?

 

[Chronoshock]

IE will use cache to reload a page unless the page specifies otherwise. I'm not sure about other browsers. But yeah ctrl+refresh (you can hit refresh at the top menu too) will reload everything w/o looking at cache. shift+refresh might do it too, I forget

 

[LOLyourFace]

What's the diff. between

Ctrl + F5

and

F5




pressing F5 alone refreshes..



[edit]
Ctrl + F5 takes significantly longer.. must redownloading everything, whereas F5 alone is refreshing only the changed data and the unchanged stuff are loaded from ur cache.

 

[vshah]

F5 just reloads it from cache. depending on your settings, it may not check the page at all for changes. CTRL-F5 skips the cache altogether and reloads entire page.

-Vivan