Firefox refresh button not working

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Anyone else ever have the Firefox toolbar "refresh" button not work for a particular page? Works everywhere else. Firefox 3.6.15. Any clues?

EDIT: For what it's worth, I later set network.http.use-cache false, and the problem went away. No idea whether that was much more than coincidence, though.

Just to clarify, I can get the effect of a refresh by pressing "enter" in the URL box, just the button seems not to be working. — Joe Mabel, Mar 21 '11 at 17:17
Weird. Intermittent. I've seen it again, but not consistently. — Joe Mabel, Mar 24 '11 at 23:14
Pressing Ctrl+R, F5 or clicking the refresh button is not doing the same thing as pressing enter in the navigation bar, but Ctrl+F5 works for me. — Christophe Roussy, Nov 21 '12 at 09:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '11 at 17:20

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There is not a lot of detail to go on in your question, but what will often happen is that firefox will cache certain elements of the page and not actually re-fetch them from the server. Try using the TamperData Add-On for firefox to see exactly what data is being transferred from the web server.

You can also just try a Ctrl-F5 to do a force page reload.

answered Mar 21 '11 at 17:20

codemonkey

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Happens to be a page from my own localhost, and I haven't messed with anything unusual lately. – Joe Mabel Mar 21 '11 at 17:46
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Ctrl-F5 fails exactly like the button. Only workaround I've found is ENTER on the URL line. – Joe Mabel Mar 21 '11 at 17:47

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '11 at 17:28

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While I can't say that I have had that problem, most "weird" behaviors I've run into were due to extensions. You might try disabling some of the more intrusive ones. Greasemonkey perhaps?

answered Mar 21 '11 at 17:28

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No Greasemonkey, and haven't added anything lately. And it's no problem on any other page. – Joe Mabel Mar 21 '11 at 17:46

Firefox refresh button not working

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