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How to save my online game progress in case of corruption (Poki.com)

I had originally asked this question in Arqade and the folks there suggested I ask this here in SuperUser. I play a few online games on poki.com, and all my progress data (like guns, upgrades, etc) ...
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Does Chrome sync website cookies and cache across devices when sync is turned on?

Does Chrome sync website cookies and cache across devices when sync is turned on? And also will these cookies and cache (images, videos, script files) sync if you mess up any settings or dev tool or ...
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How to clear Chrome/Chromium Edge Service Worker cache?

Note that this is NOT the Cache folder. It's the Cache of Service Worker, the path should be AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Service Worker. Recently I noticed my hard drive is almost ...
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How to clear cached web fonts in Chrome

I'm trying to reproduce a bug where HTTPS Everywhere is preventing a web font from loading, but the web font seems to have been cached, preventing me from reproducing the bug. Neither Ctrl-Shift-R ...
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Managing Cache that goes into user-data of Chrome Browser

In Chrome browser, we have GPUCache, ShaderCache, CacheStorage, ScriptCache, now we have DawnCache, GrShaderCache. They just keep making new folder for temp files and even mixing it into the user-data....
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How to clear cached redirects in Chrome

How do you clear cached redirects in Chrome? I changed the DNS for a domain name and when I go to mydomain.com. Even though ping mydomain.com now shows it resolves to the correct IP, if I type in "...
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Force browser to use cached pages [duplicate]

The move to https effectively killed any meaning for the browser cache. It literary does nothing but waste life on SSD drives now, since every developer thinks all pages in the universe must expire in ...
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Can I force Google Chrome to cache as much as possible?

I'm playing a game in my browser made with Unity. Before it can start, the game has to download everything, which sometimes takes several minutes. Is there a way for me to force Google Chrome to be ...
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How to clear 307 internal redirect (from disk cache) on Chrome

I'm facing a really strange issue. The issue is when I type the URL microsoft.com in my chrome it redirects me to google.com. I have tried to clear browser cache, clear everything, uninstall/re-...
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Moving the Google Chrome cache directory onto RAM disk automatically at boot in Linux

OS: Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 64-bit. I know how to create a RAM disk (tmpfs), actually I have it mounted in /etc/fstab like so: none /ramdisk tmpfs size=2G,mode=0777 0 0 As you can see,...
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Clear (or bypass) cache on Chromium startup

How to clear the Chromium cache on startup, via Chrome command-line arguments? I have already read Clear Chrome's cache via CLI but the goal is slightly different. I need Chromium (embedded) to ...
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Clear browsing history from specific site on chrome

I am using Chrome version 114.0.5735.110. I am trying to remove the history, cache, and cookies of a particular website. Google gives the following instructions: However, there is no longer such an ...
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How can I get my browser to persist its cache forever? [duplicate]

When I visit a web page, it is often cached by my web browser (Chrome). If I click on a link and then click "back" then the cached version is shown. But if I close the tab or browser and ...
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Chrome page crashes "Aw, Snap" after loading too many elements in a page. Increasing the cache would fix the issue? [duplicate]

I am scrolling through a lot of elements in a web page. To be more specific, I am scrolling through a lot of Facebook profiles and I've noticed that after a while the page crashes saying "Aw, ...
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What is ERR_CACHE_DOOM_FAILURE in chrome?

I was looking through chrome://network-error page, and I came across the error ERR_CACHE_DOOM_FAILURE. I am wondering what that means and what it is used for because google turns up no relevant ...
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Why is Chrome's service worker *cache* directory in ~/.config instead of ~/.cache?

One of the largest folders in terms of disk usage after just using my new install for one day is ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Service Worker/CacheStorage. I'm using Chrome v101 (current stable) on ...
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URGENT: How to stop a page reloading too many times in Chrome

Having issues loading a page in Chrome. I can get to a login page on https://login.scottishfalive.co.uk/Home/Index however once I input my details I get an error message, page isn't working ...
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Is it possible and worth it to create a DNS server + Cache on windows 10 and cache everything? [closed]

I was wondering if it's possible and logical to create a DNS server/cache inside Windows 10 (maybe by using wsl). So when I search twitter.com, for example, it doesn't go to Google or Cloudflare ...
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Decode Google Chrome cache file OSX

How can I decode the Google Chrome cache files located in /Users/[USER]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Profile [NUM]/Cache named like 0a0b447d0216bd30_0 and looking like: 0\r�m����8��https://...
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Disaster Recovery: Deleted Entire Knowledge Base on Web (Zendesk)

Running Chrome Version 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit) under Win10. Recently, through user error, we deleted apx. 100 articles from our customer knowledge base, which is hosted by Zendesk. Not ...
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How to enable offline cache (offline browsing) in Chome?

Google appears to have removed the flags option "Enable Show Saved Copy Button" (the #show-saved-copy flag) in Chrome. I don't know when they did it, but I'm not seeing it in version 75. Is there ...
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How do I stop Chrome sending Cache-control: max-age=0 when I hit enter?

I'm on a slightly flaky connection and I'm trying to improve my browsing experience with the use of a local proxy. According to my research, however, if I hit 'enter' in my browser on an existing URL,...
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View which Chrome extension uses a specific IndexedDB

In AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default/IndexedDB, I have one particular folder that takes up nearly 2GB. The folder is titled chrome-extension-.indexeddb.blob, so I have reason to believe ...
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Chrome Ignoring Cache Clear

I realize this question has been asked before. I have read the previous questions, and the solutions are not working for me. Chrome absolutely refuses to clear all cached data. This is interfering ...
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I deleted password from chrome://settings/passwords now I want to put it back but Chrome will not ask

I deleted a password from chrome://settings/passwords. I now want to put it back but Chrome will not ask me to save it. (I deleted it because I saved the wrong password.) Now I know the password and I ...
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Keep most recent browsing data in web browser

When you clear your cache in modern browsers you are given choices such as: Last hour Today Last week Last month All time Google Chrome on my Android phone has recently started becoming unresponsive ...
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How does Chrome/Chromium eviction algorithm really work?

Chromium Disk Cache docs state: Right now we have a simple Least Recently Used algorithm that just starts deleting old entries once a certain limit is exceeded, and a second algorithm that takes ...
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Chrome changes the subdomain I enter to a different, cached one (MAMP localhost)

Has anybody noticed that Chrome sometimes changes a URL you enter to a slightly different one that you've entered before? Going Incognito fixes the problem, but I want to clear the cached URL, or tell ...
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Set Google Chrome media cache size

I'm streaming images and videos from my server, with a player that loops over them. Since thoose files can be very large, i need my client to load them from cache when the player plays more time the ...
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No client-side caching in headless Chrome with proxy-server?

(I think this has more to do with software configuration than programming which is why I posted here instead of StackOverflow.) I've been testing and searching for a couple days it seems on this ...

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