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what the use of the reload button if you need pressing shift for it works?

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edrusb
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I don't understand why changing the behavior of the reload button, as now it does nothing if you press it alone and to get the expected/historical behavior you need to press shift at the time you press the reload button... this is annoying because I've found this information by mistake while I had decided for months not to use anymore firefox due to this absence of refresh feature! So you may have lost other users for that reason too. In another hand, I'm now happy to know how to refresh a page with firefox so I can move back to it now, but still remain big incomprehension of this change without notification showing when you press the button alone telling this button is useless unless you also press shift... When at next release you decide that it will be a more complex key combination or asking the user to dance in from of the camera for the reload button to work, could you make a popup showing that tells which dance is requested by the user?

I don't understand why changing the behavior of the reload button, as now it does nothing if you press it alone and to get the expected/historical behavior you need to press shift at the time you press the reload button... this is annoying because I've found this information by mistake while I had decided for months not to use anymore firefox due to this absence of refresh feature! So you may have lost other users for that reason too. In another hand, I'm now happy to know how to refresh a page with firefox so I can move back to it now, but still remain big incomprehension of this change without notification showing when you press the button alone telling this button is useless unless you also press shift... When at next release you decide that it will be a more complex key combination or asking the user to dance in from of the camera for the reload button to work, could you make a popup showing that tells which dance is requested by the user?

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philipp
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hello edrusb, this is a primarily community-run support forum so it's probably not the right place to request features or changes (we cannot implement any features & devs won't read here). please use https://input.mozilla.org/feedback for general feedback instead. thank you!

cor-el
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Shift + Reload bypasses to cache just like Ctrl+F5 versus F5 does. This makes Firefox retrieve all files fresh from the server and should also instruct possible proxies not to use cached copies of files.