'ctrl+F5' button in Firefox's toolbar

[Shaidar]

Is there any way to have a 'hard refresh' (ctrl+F5) button in Firefox's toolbar? Or modify the function of the normal refresh button to a 'hard refresh'?

[Shaidar]

mm, could this be the wrong subforum for that question?

[bangbang023 Veteran]

Not that I know of.

[Shaidar]

Well, I do ... actually, Dickvl on MozillaZine forums knew ...

You can find this code in this file: "Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\browser.jar\content\browser\browser.xul"

      <toolbarbutton id="reload-button" class="toolbarbutton-1 chromeclass-toolbar-additional"
                     label="&reloadCmd.label;"
                     oncommand="if (event.shiftKey) BrowserReloadSkipCache(); else BrowserReload();"  
                     tooltiptext="&reloadButton.tooltip;"/>
                    

If you change that to this code then the reload button should work as you wish.

      <toolbarbutton id="reload-button" class="toolbarbutton-1 chromeclass-toolbar-additional"
                     label="&reloadCmd.label;"
                     oncommand="BrowserReloadSkipCache()"  
                     tooltiptext="&reloadButton.tooltip;"/>
                    

I used Winrar to open that browser.jar file, edit the browser.xul file with Ultraedit, and again Winrar to re"zip" the browser.jar file with the new browser.xul ...

[gur713]

why not just press the shift key on the reload button, makes more sense

[Shaidar]

That would be okay at home, because I have a direct internet connection there. But here at my work it's a different thing. I must connect via a proxy who caches all internetpages like fourhundred years... I _always_ have to shift+refresh, so why not make it available with a single mouseclick... That way I can use my other hand to support my head when surfing :p ;)