How to force hard reload on Firefox for Android

Question

How is it possible to force a hard reload on Firefox for Android?

On desktop it works with Ctrl + F5, but how does it work in the app?

Inapprehensive

not sure if this is in the right place but base on Mozilla: To reload a page tap the 3 dot menu in the upper right and then in the menu that appears press the reload button. You can force a completely clean load of the page by long pressing on the reload button. – Moraine

Answer 1

Open the menu (3 dots in the status bar) and press the reload button for a few seconds to force a hard page reload.

Inapprehensive

This doesn't work me on firefox for android – Yasmeen

That is definitely how it used to work, but ever since Mozilla's 'simplification' of their android app, it is just a normal reload for me. – Jun

It just did the trick for me after going crazy for a while trying to figure out why the new CSS style wasn't being picked up. Firefox 115.2.1 for Android. – Latticework

Answer 2

Usually i'm toggling between desktop/mobile view. It's the most convenient way for me.

Overword

Desktop view is under the 3-dots kebab menu, so it is actually not that simpler than the other answer, but it worked for me, and I am now not able to test the other answer. – Astrology

Answer 3

Just for anyone who finds this and none of the answers work. Try this.

• Click the padlock icon next to the URL for the site.
• Select "Clear Cookies and Site Data"
• Confirm your click.

The cached days for that site will be removed. Refresh the page as usual (pull down the screen, use the refresh button etc.)

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Alternatively, if you just one the one page (leaving all other files like CSS, images etc. as they were), add a random parameter to the page URL. e.g. for example.com/foo/bar use this instead example.com/foo/bar?qwerty=12345

It won't reload the cache for the original page but it will reload that page completely because the URL being cached is different. This works on any mobile browser but it's not very efficient as you have to use a different parameter each time and css etc doesn't get refreshed.

Invariable