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The suggestion is to have an easy way to do a hard reload (bypassing or clearing the cache of the particular page you are on) on Orion for mobile.

As far as I can determine, there is no way to do this.

On desktop, shift + reload button usually forces this, but there isn't this option on mobile.

One of the benefits will be for Orion power users, in particular any who might want to use Orion for web development (as it already has good web development features compared to other browsers), or Orion users who want to use Orion as their main browser and not find another browser for their web development projects.

It will also be of benefit to any students of web development who want to use Orion, as early on in web development one has to learn the concept of hard reload and cache, and such people will want to be able to do this when testing their web projects on Orion mobile.

The easy way to implement this in the UI that would make it easy to discover for a user is a tap-hold action on the reload button in the URL bar.

Currently, it opens up a menu with a single item: "Reload Without Content Blockers".

The suggestion is to add a second item, "Hard Reload" (or some more appropriate user-facing term).

    Do other browsers have something similar?

      What would you think about enhancing the current reload with an alternative Forced Reload?

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        eirk As far as I know, no mobile browsers (on iOS that I've tried) have this feature, but I see this as an ommission, part of an attempt to excessively simplify mobile browsers. IMO this would make Orion more appealing to power users and developers too.

        Yannick In my opinion, pull-to-refresh is commonly expected to be a simple reload, and so if it became a Forced Reload it would actually bypass user expectation — and they wouldn't know that its being Force Reloaded as opposed to normal reloaded since the appearance is the same.

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