There may be a number of reasons why you may need to hard reset your browser. This guide should show you the steps to perform a hard reset. This guide is based on Google Chrome, however this should be similar in most other popular browsers.
Hard reset your browser
- Open the page that you need to hard reset and press the ‘F12’ key on your keyboard.
- You should see a window pop up to the right of your screen. This is known as the browser's ‘Developer Tools’.
- Once this window is open, right-click on the ‘refresh’ icon in your browser.
- Click the ‘Empty Cache and Hard Reload’ button, and the page should reload.
- Close the ‘Developer Tools’ window by either pressing the ‘F12’ key or clicking the ‘X’ in the top right corner.
