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A mechanism for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag.

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Finding older versions of LinkedIn profiles

I saw a post from a LinkedIn user that is very important and therefore went back to the profile to find the post and it had been removed, presumably by the poster. I was wondering if they are ways to ...
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Can't switch off YouTube dark mode

I can't switch off YouTube dark mode; the image here explains it: Can someone help? Restarting the browser doesn't help. If I switch mode and restart it, it is dark again.
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Why doesn't YouTube cache videos? [closed]

Normally, if we watch a video (or view an image), it's stored in the cache (local disk). But YouTube doesn't cache videos. As far as I know, they use the cache but it's temporary. As soon as browser ...
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Caching assets in website served from GitHub pages

The server for GitHub pages (including mine) sets CacheControl: max-age=600. It means the cache is set to last only for ten minutes, which is undesirable. Is it possible to control this value and to ...
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Signed out but still says "G'day John"

I signed out of eBay, but the site still says "G'day John" next to the sign in link (let's assume my name is John). I do not want to have to reset cache, cookies and website data etc. just to clear my ...
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Caching assets in Github pages (github.io)

Is it possible to cache assets in github pages? I'm wondering If I should consider moving my webapp from my personal server to github pages and the only thing that's stopping me so far is this.
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Already loaded video data is being discarded

As you probably know, the YouTube video player caches the loaded portions of the video so one can seek to any previously-loaded part of the video without re-downloading it. When viewing a video and ...
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Setting Hotmail to cache fewer old messages

Whenever I have a tab open with Hotmail running in Chrome, it takes up a large chunk of memory (around 250 M). I've had the account for a long time, so I have a ton of email messages stored in it. I'...
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How to refresh the cache of links in Facebook?

I recently found out my webpage had been hacked. When viewers would go there it would go to some screwy page. Now that it's fixed, I can go to my site again, but if I click on a link from my Facebook ...
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I no longer see the 'cached' link in Google search results [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I bring back the Google “cached version” links? Until recently when I did a search on Google, many of the results would show a 'cached' link beneath the ...
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Speeding up the removal of pages of a deactivated website from Google cache

I just deleted a old blog from Blogger that barely got any visitors. How long will pages from it keep showing up in the Google cache? Is there a way that I can I make Google forget about it faster?
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