Browser Refresh

Whenever you visit a Web site or move to a new page on a site, you generally expect the information shown to be the latest. With major sites, your browser will be refreshed automatically and you will see the most recent changes to the pages. This is not true for the majority of sites, so you could be missing an important notice or change in schedule.

Although this problem is rather innocuous, it can be annoying and is easily remedied. Here is how to configure your browser to refresh every time you visit a page.

Internet Explorer

• Click on Tools, Internet Options (or go to Internet Options in the Control Panel), and then the General tab.
• Under “Temporary Internet Files,” click the Settings button.
• Under “Check for newer versions of stored pages,” click on the “Every visit to page” button and then click OK and OK to exit and save the changes.

Netscape 7

• Click on Edit, Preferences.
• On the left side of the box, go to the bottom and click the plus sign (+) next to Advanced.
• Click on Cache.
• On the right, where it says, “Compare the page in the cache to the page on the Network,” click on the “Every time I view the page” button.
• Click OK to exit and save the changes.

Netscape 8
Netscape has decided, along with the elimination of its mail reader, to remove cache refresh from the options in Netscape 8. You can manually refresh a page by clicking the Reload button in the browser's Navigation Toolbar... just another reason not to use Netscape 8.

Opera 8

• Click on Tools, Preferences.
• Go to the Advanced tab and click on History in the left-hand list.
• Change the “Check documents” setting to Always.
• Click OK to exit and save the changes.

Firefox
From the people who bring you Netscape, Firefox has the same refresh issue as Netscape 8. You can manually refresh a page by clicking the Reload button in the browser's Navigation Toolbar