Introduction
Sometimes Engage or the Web Ministry Tool you are working in does not behave as expected. If this happens, you can clear the browser cache to see if this will fix the issue. In this article, we will explain what the browser cache is and how you can clear it in the more popular browsers of Windows and macOS.
It is not expected that you should need to clear your browser's cache unless there is a specific issue. If you find you need to routinely clear your cache for Engage to function properly, please contact technical support to troubleshoot the root cause.
What is a browser cache?
Browser cache exists to give the end user a better Internet experience. Typically, your Internet connection is slower than your computer. It is faster to get something off of your disk drive than it is to download it every time from the Internet. So, it is faster to download it once and keep a copy so the browser can use it again. That’s browser cache.
It is nothing more than a place where the browser keeps things downloaded on your disk drive so the browser can use it again.
There could be times that the web page you are on requires a refresh of the information displayed, but the browser continues to pickup the previously downloaded information from the cache. Going through the process of clearing the cache will require the browser to download everything for that web page the next time it attempts to load the page.