Your system is hanging? When you’re browsing, your screen lags a lot? Are you facing some sort of error while watching videos? This is an all-in-one solution for all your browser problems.

What is Browser Cache?

A cache is a set of information stored on your PC by the most website. The information can be anything, but mostly it includes your recent session, credentials, reserved memory, and some website information.

Believe it or not, caches are the reason you’re facing most problems on your browsers. Some of them include Cache penetration, Cache avalanche, and Hotspot data invalid error. When someone suggests you to clear your browser cache, they’re basically saying you to just clear up some stored data on your PC. However, clearing cache doesn’t make your system work faster, it also won’t hurt your PC.

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You can clear your cache when you’re working with delicate information like credit card numbers or in most cases when your browsing is nagging for performance. Lastly, it just creates a “New PC” like environment. So whatever the reason, you’re here to learn how to clear cache from chrome, safari, and Firefox. Here’s how you can do this.

How to clear cache in Google Chrome

• Click on the Chrome Settings
• Go to Privacy and Security
• Scroll down to section ‘Clear browsing data‘
• Select the Time range
• Click on the Clear data button

How to clear the cache on Firefox

• Click on the Preference menu
• Go to the Privacy category
• Here select, Remember history
• Change this to Use custom settings for history
• Tick the cache box
• Select Ok

How to clear the cache on Safari

• Click the safari button on the upper left corner
• Select Preferences menu
• Select the Privacy tab
• Click the button ‘Remove All Website Data…’

This will clear up everything stored on your computer. You can also use the Reset safari option, under the Safari tab.