1176416 - Add Hard refresh, empty cache options to reload button in location bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1129744

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Bell]

Attachment: chrome-hard-refresh-options.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150619004003

Steps to reproduce:

Chrome 42+ has a feature (when dev tools is open) in which pressing and holding the reload button in the location bar opens a contextual dropdown with three options:

-Normal reload
-Hard reload
-Empty cache and hard reload

Screenshot attached.

This is extremely useful for clearing cache repeatedly during development, and also for power users who need to confirm that they are getting the latest version of a file. Please consider implementing something similar.

Comment 1

[Brian Grinstead [:bgrins]]

This feature seems really handy.  A little weird that it only happens when the toolbox is opened, but I guess that is to keep non-devs from seeing it (it's not clear to me if that would actually be a bad thing).

We already have a hold-to-open menu UI on the back/forward buttons, so maybe some of that could be reused.