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?

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.

Answer 2

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.