Sometimes it’s necessary to clear cached or stored site data and cookies to resolve a problem with websites. Very often you’ll hear site operators tell you to clear your cache. While that’s all very well for them, it’s a rather scorched-earth approach for you, the user.
If you clear your entire cache, it will affect every website you use. For example, you’ll need to sign back into every site afresh and will lose any locally saved data, such as settings or preferences.
I don’t care, let’s just clear it
No problem – here are instructions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge.
Selectively clearing data
Instead, it’s better to just clear the sites you need. This article shows how to do that for The Photographer’s Ephemeris Web – you just need to know which domains to clear. The exact method varies by browser, so here are examples for several popular ones.
Of course, if you’re happy to, you can always just clear everything and be done with it. But I suspect many of you would prefer a more targeted solution!
Safari
Open Preferences from the Safari menu at the top-left of the screen. On the Privacy tab, choose Manage Website Data…
In the search field, type ‘photoephemeris.com’, select the result that is displayed, and click Remove:
Be careful not to click Remove All, otherwise all this will have been in vain…
Firefox
Open Settings and then choose Privacy & Security from the list of settings categories on the left. In the (long) list of settings shown on the right, scroll down until you see Cookies and Site Data:
Click Manage Data…
In the search field, type photoephemeris.com, then click Remove All Shown.
Chrome
Open Settings and then choose Privacy and security from the list of settings categories on the left. In the list of settings on the right, choose Cookies and other site data:
Scroll down the list of settings until you see See all cookies and site data, then click it:
Type photoephemeris.com in the search field and then click Remove All Shown.
