You can often notice that the browser immediately after installation functions quite quickly, and after a while its operation slows down. In this case, you should know what the browser cache is and how to clean it. It should be noted that this procedure should be carried out quite regularly, since it is very important for increasing the page loading speed. It does not matter which application is used for web surfing, since clearing the cache will be useful to any browser.
Before you start cleaning, you should find out what the browser cache is and why it is needed. Since networking is related to browsing websites, it is very important that they load faster. Internet resources contain on their pages a large number of various multimedia content, including flash content, video, etc. In turn, the browser, in order to quickly open a site that has already been visited by a user, remembers all the information about it. Therefore, when you reload the web page, its display speed will be noticeably higher.
To understand what the browser cache is, you can imagine it in the form of a database, where all information about the pages viewed is entered. In the process of the next loading of the already visited page, part of its components will be extracted not from the Internet, but from the cache. Only the browser has access to this temporary storage; the user cannot independently open and check its contents. It is clear that a trip to websites every day increases the amount of data stored on the computer, which makes it difficult to find the necessary information inside the cache. This can cause a paradoxical situation when a component created to speed up loading slows down not only the browser, but the entire operating system.
Knowing what a browser cache is , you can consider how it is cleared in applications from different developers. This procedure is quite simple, but implemented in different ways. In Google Chrome, you need to open the history menu. To do this, the easiest way is to use the “Ctrl + H” combination. In the window that opens, it is necessary to activate the option “Clear history”, where you should specify the time for which it will be necessary to clear, and highlight the sub-item “Clear cache”.
In Firefox, the cache can be cleared in the "Erase Recent History" window, which opens with the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + Shift + Alt." After choosing a time period, you need to click "Details", where you specify what you want to clear.
For those who use the Microsoft browser, you need to open the "Tools" menu on the toolbar. Next, select "Internet Options" and "General." A window will open where you should select the checkbox next to the line “Temporary Internet files” and confirm your intentions by clicking on the “Delete” button.
The cache of the Opera is cleared through the menu "Settings" - "Advanced" or simply press "Ctrl + F12". Next, select the sub-item “History”, where you can see the line “Disk cache”. To the right of it is the "Clear" button. Having pressed it, it is necessary to confirm deletion with the OK button.