When you visit a website, you want to make sure that you are getting the latest version of a page pulled from the webserver.

For example

You look at a Car For Sale on Sunday using Internet Explorer or Firefox to view a webpage. You write the number down because it is too late to call right now.

At lunch the next day, you pull up that webpage you added to your favourites. You admire the car, then call the number.

The man at the other end says “Sorry, I sold that car this morning. It should have a SOLD banner across the picture now.”

You thank him and hang up.

You sit at the computer, open up IE and click on the webpage in your favourites. Sure enough the car looks just like it did when you looked at it this morning. No SOLD banner across it.

Then, all the sudden you remember a tip you read about. Holding down CTRL+R on your keyboard, your browser refreshes to the most current version of the webpage and the car has the SOLD banner.

How Get Latest Version

There are a few ways you can get the most current page.
IE8, Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox all use the CTRL +R to get the latest page.

Or you can “Clear the Cache” in these browsers as well

• IE8 – Tools / Internet Options / General / Browsing history / Settings . Set it to check for newer versions Everytime I visit the webpage. Set the Discspace to 8 and click OKAlso on the same place at Tools / Internet Options / General / Browsing history / Delete a window will pop up and you can choose what data to delete . Make sure Temporary Internet Files is checked, then click Delete
  
• Chrome – Tools / Options / Under the Hood / Privacy / Clear Browsing Data . Make sure Empty the cache is checked. The click Clear browsing data
  
• Mozilla Firefox – Tools /Options / Advanced / Network / Offline Storage change the number of MB for space for the cache to 8. Click Clear Now. Click OK

And yet another way you can do this is with the key combinations

IE , Chrome, and Firefox- hit SHIFT +F5

Previously IE, Netscape and Firefox all had key combinations of CTRL SHIT F5 and R you could use. CTRL +R now seems pretty standard.