[SOLVED] Firefox Desktop NOT Honouring No Cache

[AliGW]

I have a weird one this morning. I updated two pages this morning: the home page and the diary page on my website, both of which had had some minor text content changes. The home page updated fine, but the diary page stubbornly refuses to do so in Firefox on my desktop (fully up-to-date).

I have checked in Edge and the page has updated fine, as it has in Firefox on my iPhone, but I cannot get Firefox on my desktop to show the new version, no matter what I do.

I suspect it's a temporary glitch, but I'm baffled.

1. Both the site page and the master page on which it is based contain the no-cache meta tags.
2. The .htaccess file also contains no-cache code (belt and braces here - I know I don't really need to define them three times).
3. I've republished the page several times, removing it and its CSS file from the host each time.
4. I've republished the whole site more than once.
5. I've cleared the cache under Settings in Firefox several times - I have a feeling that it is this that has stopped working properly for some reason, but why for one page and not another, I don't know.
6. I've restarted Firefox.
7. I've rebooted my laptop.

Still I am being served up a non-existent page in Firefox on my desktop and no amount of hitting F5 will make the new page show.

Knowing that the page is correct on the host, I am not overly worried and suspect that it will just put itself right at some point, but it's very odd indeed, and not an issue I've had at all since adding the no-cache meta tags to my site pages. Just flummoxed.

I shall try making changes to another page later today and see if I have the same problem, but I have to leave it for now.

Not really looking for help as there's nothing wrong from the publishing point of view: it's just Firefox desktop being weird. Does anyone else get this with Firefox at all?

No real point in sharing the page as I know it's working corectly in other browsers and you wouldn't have the cached page on your systems (but it's here and the date in the diary entry should be 13 February, not 12 - if you are seeing 12, I'd love to know: https://www.alisongwright.me.uk/diary.html). More a frustrated vent than anything.

EDIT: It has taken 2-3 hours, but it has now put itself right.

[alan_sh]

Did you try CTRL-F5? That should clear the cache.

Alan

[AliGW]

I tried everything, including F5 and deleting the cache via Firefox, as I mentioned above, but nothing worked. Roughly two and a half hours later it put itself right. I shall be interested to see if it happens again when I next update that page.

[alan_sh]

F5 and Ctrl-F5 are different.

Alan

[AliGW]

Yes. As I said, I tried everything - all combinations, including emptying the cache in Firefox settings.

And as I also said, it has resolved itself, but thanks.

[alan_sh]

Ok. Thanks