Browsers and Mail Refresh or Hard Refresh Page in Microsoft Edge on Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to refresh or hard refresh a web page in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The Microsoft Edge web browser is based on Chromium and was released on January 15, 2020. It is compatible with all supported versions of Windows, and macOS. With speed, performance, best in class compatibility for websites and extensions, and built-in privacy and security features.

You can refresh a page in Microsoft Edge to reload the page in the current tab without closing it.

A normal refresh of a page in Edge can help update content or fix minor display issues, but may use cached images and files. This can be useful when web pages do not load correctly due to temporary glitches. A normal refresh can often fix small loading issues or inconsistencies on the page.

A hard refresh forces Edge to bypass cached data and load the latest version of the page from the server. This can be useful when a normal refresh doesn't resolve a page failing to load correctly.

Using empty cache and hard refresh deletes cached images and files for the page from Edge to force future visits to download them again, then performs a hard refresh to load the latest version of the page from the server.

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1 While you have the page open in Microsoft Edge, use the keyboard shortcut below for how you want to refresh the page.






1 While you have the page open in Microsoft Edge, perform an action below for how you want to refresh the page. (see screenshot below)

• Click/tap on the Refresh button to perform a normal refresh.
• Press and hold the Shift key while you click/tap on the Refresh button to perform a hard refresh.

1 While you have the page open in Microsoft Edge, perform an action below for how you want to refresh the page. (see screenshot below)

• Right click on the tab, and click/tap on Refresh to perform a normal refresh.
• Right click on the tab, and press and hold the Shift key while you click/tap on Refresh to perform a hard refresh.

1 While you have the page open in Microsoft Edge, perform an action below to open Developer Tools. (see screenshot below)

• Press the F12 key.
• Press the Ctrl+Shift+I keys.
• Click/tap on Settings > More tools > Developer tools.

2 Right click on the Refresh button.

3 Click/tap on Normal Refresh, Hard Refresh, or Empty cache and hard refresh for how you want to refresh the current page.




That's it,
Shawn Brink