Option to permanently disable cache in settings
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Nov 20 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: N/A because this is a feature request, not a bug What is the expected behavior? You should be able to disable cache permanently in Chrome settings. What went wrong? You cannot disable cache permanently in Chrome settings. Cache is constantly screwing things up when I'm doing mapping on Google Maps. I have to go to chrome://settings/clearBrowserData to clear the junk cache and then the maps immediately start working again. Furthermore, I am not interested in Chrome saving cache even if it were not for these problems since cache causes outdated versions of webpages to load and my HDD is actually slower than my internet connection. I am not requesting that someone help me with the technical issues caused by the cache, but am requesting that Google add an option to Chrome settings that allows you to permanently disable cache. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94 Channel: stable OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version: This should be an easy-to-find feature under settings, rather than a setting that is difficult to find. Furthermore, there should be an article on the Google Chrome Help Center instructing you how exactly to enable such option.
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Nov 20 2017
There's a very high bar for adding a setting to Chrome, and I don't think this meets it. If Google maps is displaying incorrect information when the cache is enabled, that's likely a maps bug, rather than an issue with the cache. Same is true in general - if sites don't want particular frequently-updated resources to be cached, there are HTTP headers than let them do that.
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Nov 20 2017
Is there any way to disable cache outside of settings?
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Nov 20 2017
It may be possible for an extension to attach "cache-control: no-cache" to every request via the WebRequest API, though I think that may also bypass the DNS cache, which would likely be a huge performance hit on some platforms (Though probably not Windows, currently). Other than that, I'm unaware of any way to make Chrome never cache anything. Even in incognito mode, we'll use an in-memory cache (And of course, you'll lose all persistence of settings).
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Nov 20 2017
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Comment 1 by davidben@chromium.org
, Nov 20 2017