ERR_CACHE_READ_FAILURE in google chrome

Question

more often than not, I get a list of ERR_CACHE_READ_FAILURE errors when loading a web page in google chrome - this results in assets not being loaded, images, style sheets etc.

what would be the cause of this? I have tried disabling browser extensions, clearing cache etc.

It is causing me issues when testing websites, as they work fine on other machines or browsers

Answer 1

In my case a tool called Dell SupportAssist has cleaned up browser caches by deleting their temp folder contents, meanwhile the browser had database entries to those cached files somewhere else and thought the cached data is still available.

Solution was to delete those references to inexisting files by cleaning the browser cache within Chrome

Answer 2

Try typing in chrome url bar: chrome://flags/#enable-simple-cache-backend,

Then enable Simple Cache for HTTP.

Reference to google forum with the issue (link).