Does "Empty Cache and Hard Reload" empty the entire cache or just parts relevant to the current site?

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Does "Empty Cache and Hard Reload" in Chromium/Chrome empty the entire cache or just parts relevant to the current site?

My inkling is that it empties absolutely all cached resources (as suggested in the comment to this answer).

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:26:01Z

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It empties the entire cache.

You can verify this with these steps:

Browse through a few sites (reddit, stack overflow, ...)
Enter chrome://cache into the omnibox
Save the list of files
Go to a basic website with no external resources like example.com
Open the developer console, right click on Refresh, and select Empty Cache and Hard Reload
Enter chrome://cache into the omnibox again
Compare the list of cached files with the list you saved in the third step. Files that were cached by Reddit and Stack Overflow will be gone, even though they are not referenced by example.com.

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GenuinePlaceholder · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-20 23:37:16Z

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It removes all cache. Hard reload would be like a hard reboot on a computer.

answered May 20, 2014 at 23:37

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