Clear Your Cache & Cookies
One aspect of time savings relates to your online experience and ability to easily access updated information.
Web browsers you visit often will remember (cache) certain things such as logos, images, and content. At times, you'll need to clear your cached history folder to view updated content. By clearing your cache, you're telling your computer to delete information that your web browser has stored in the memory. Then, you will be able to view updates to a website page that were not showing due to previously stored information.
Here's how to clear your cache on each web browser for your desktop computers:
Edge
To learn more, visit Microsoft Support
- Select the Internet Explorer Menu icon (3 dots icon).
- Select Settings.
- Choose Privacy and services.
- Go to Clear browsing data, then select Clear browsing data now, and Choose what to clear.
- First select the Time range you want to clear. We recommend All time.
- Then you may select Browsing history, Download history, Cookies and other site data, and/or Cached images and files. We recommend clearing Cached images and files.
- Click Clear now.
Google Chrome
To learn more, visit Google Support
- Select the Chrome Menu icon.
- Select the More Tools link.
- Select the Clear browsing data link.
- In the data drop-down menu, select the time range where you want to clear browsing data.
- Select the Cookies and other site and plug-in data and Cached images and files checkboxes. If you do not want to clear browsing history, make sure to uncheck any boxes associated with this before you move to the next step.
- Click the Clear Browsing Data button.
Safari
To learn more, visit Apple Support
- In the Safari menu bar, click the Safari option.
- Click the Clear History link.
- In the Clear drop-down menu, select the time range where you want to clear browsing data.
- Click the Clear History button.
Firefox
To learn more, visit Firefox Support
- In the Firefox menu bar, click the Firefox option.
- Select the Preferences link.
- Click the Privacy tab.
- Under the History heading, click the clear your recent history link.
- Select the Cache checkbox. If you do not want to clear browsing history, make sure to uncheck any boxes associated with this before you move to the next step.
- Click the Clear Now button.