CacheSweeper

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CacheSweeper is a Chrome extension that clears the cache, cookies and site storage for the site you're on, then reloads the tab. One click on the toolbar icon, or Ctrl+Shift+X (Cmd+Shift+X on Mac). Every other site stays exactly as it was, logins included. Built for everyone, tuned for developers.

You shipped a fix, but the page still shows yesterday's version. Or a site is acting up and the advice is always the same: "clear your cache". Chrome's way is to open Settings, dig into Privacy and security, open the browsing-data dialog, pick a time range, tick the boxes, confirm, go back to your tab and reload.

And because that dialog works on every site at once, you've just been signed out of your email, your dashboards and every other tab you had open.

CacheSweeper does the job for the one site you're on, in one step, and shows you what it removed.

1. Install CacheSweeper from the Chrome Web Store. It's free.
2. Open the site that's misbehaving.
3. Press Ctrl+Shift+X, or click the CacheSweeper icon in your toolbar.
4. CacheSweeper clears that site's data, reloads the tab and shows a small summary card on the page: which types it removed, how many cookies, and how much space it freed.

Three ways to clear:

• Keyboard: Ctrl+Shift+X (Cmd+Shift+X on Mac). Change it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
• Toolbar icon: one click.
• Right-click the toolbar icon: Clear Cache Now, switch profile, open settings.

Everything else lives on the settings page: right-click the toolbar icon and choose Settings.

• You deployed, but the browser keeps serving the old CSS or JavaScript bundle.
• A login is stuck in a loop and you want fresh cookies for one site, not a sign-out everywhere.
• You're testing a first-run or onboarding flow again and again, and localStorage keeps remembering the last run.
• A service worker keeps handing back an old build (Premium unregisters it and reloads without the cache).
• A form wizard or checkout keeps restoring half-finished state from sessionStorage (Premium).
• A shopping cart, image or page layout looks broken and a fresh start usually fixes it.
• You like a tidy browser, on a schedule you choose (Premium).

By default a clear touches only the site you're on (per-origin scope). Switch per-origin scope off and CacheSweeper clears every site at once. Each type has its own switch, per profile.

Passwords are never touched. Chrome no longer lets extensions clear them, and CacheSweeper doesn't ask to.

• Five storage types on by default: HTTP cache, cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB and CacheStorage, plus a sixth you can switch on: the origin private file system (OPFS). Each has its own switch.
• Per-origin scope, on by default: clear the current site and leave every other site alone.
• Auto-reload: the tab reloads after every clear, so you see the fresh version (you can turn it off).
• Clear summary: a card on the page after each clear with the types removed, cookies counted and space freed, measured from the site's own storage report before and after.
• Confirm before clearing: an optional prompt; decline and nothing is cleared.
• Two ready-made profiles: Default for every site, and Localhost for localhost and 127.0.0.1. Switch from the toolbar icon's right-click menu.
• Chrome's own list: browsing history, download history and autofill data, the same items as Chrome's Clear browsing data, off by default, one toggle each.
• sessionStorage stays safe: Chrome's own localStorage removal also wipes sessionStorage in your open tabs as a side effect. On the free tier CacheSweeper puts it straight back, so a clear never loses tab state you didn't ask to lose.

$3 a month or $29 once. Everything in Free, plus:

• sessionStorage, cleared properly. Chrome's browsing-data dialog and its data-clearing API have no sessionStorage option, so tools built only on them can't reach it. CacheSweeper Premium clears it inside every open tab of the site, without closing a single tab.
• Scheduled clearing. Clear on a timer (every 30 minutes, hour, 4 hours, 12 hours or once a day), when Chrome starts, or after your computer has been idle for 5 minutes. Scheduled clears cover every site except protected ones and report through a system notification.
• Tab-close clearing. Close a site's tab and CacheSweeper clears that site's data automatically.
• Protected domains. The sites you never want signed out of. Protected domains are skipped by every clear, including the automatic ones, on any port (localhost also protects localhost:3000).
• Unlimited profiles. A profile per project or environment (localhost, staging, production), and CacheSweeper switches to the right one by domain.
• Import and export profiles. Save your profiles to a file and load them on another machine.
• Service worker registrations. Unregister the site's service worker, not just its cache.
• Time range. Clear only the last 15 minutes, hour, day, week or month, or everything.
• Metrics dashboard. Data freed, number of clears, cookies removed, automated clears, and your 30 most recent clears by trigger.
• Bypass-cache reload. Reload without the HTTP cache, so the next load is truly fresh.

Getting Premium: choose a plan on cachesweeper.com, pay through Lemon Squeezy (our merchant of record, which handles payment, tax and receipts), then paste your license key on the Premium tab of CacheSweeper's settings. No account to create.

Every Premium purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked: email support@cachesweeper.com or ask Lemon Squeezy. There's no trial to expire: the free tier is the trial, and nothing nags you to upgrade.

• Runs locally in your browser. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no account.
• Your browsing data never leaves your browser. The only data CacheSweeper sends is a Premium license key: to Lemon Squeezy's license service to activate it, then about once a day to confirm it's still valid.
• The settings page loads its fonts and icons from Google Fonts and jsDelivr, like most web pages do; nothing about your browsing or settings goes with them.
• It never reads page content. Cookie values are never read: cookies are only counted for the summary.
• Your settings and profiles are saved with Chrome's storage API. If you use Chrome sync, Google syncs them for you; the license key stays in that one browser.

Full policy: cachesweeper.com/privacy

If a permission isn't needed for clearing, CacheSweeper doesn't request it.

• Localhost profile. Applies to localhost and 127.0.0.1, so your dev-server settings stay separate from everyday browsing.
• Cookies are per host, not per port. Chrome keeps one cookie jar per host, shared by every port, so clearing cookies on localhost:3000 also clears them for localhost:5173. CacheSweeper tells you when that happens. Every other storage type stays separate per port.
• sessionStorage and Chrome's API. Chrome's localStorage removal empties sessionStorage in the site's open tabs as a side effect. CacheSweeper snapshots it before the clear and restores it after, unless you've chosen to clear it (Premium).
• Pages it can't clear. Chrome doesn't let extensions run on chrome:// pages, the New Tab page or other extensions' pages. Open a website and clear from that tab.
• Still signed into Google? When you're signed in to Chrome itself, Google refreshes the cookies that keep your Google Account signed in, even after Chrome's own Clear browsing data. Every other site signs out normally.
• Built on Manifest V3. A background service worker, no remote code: every script ships in the package.

• How to clear cache and cookies for one site in Chrome

Questions, bugs or ideas: email support@cachesweeper.com (a human reads every message) or visit cachesweeper.com/support.

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