On Tue, 2024-11-12 at 22:04 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
When I try to login to github from my usual computer (FC40) using my usual account on said computer, I do not get asked for my user name and password, instead I get 404 not found oginx The second line might be off. Switching accounts on my computer allows me to login to github.
How do I login using my usual account? Do I really have to tell firefox to erase all of my history and all of my cookies from the beginning of time?
I would try erasing *just* the cache. But, first, try a forced reload. It should re-fetch the page, rather than just refresh the display.
Instead of just clicking on the reload icon, try shift-clicking it. Or ctrl+click, or alt+click (it's going to depend on your browser). If you're using the keyboard, it may be shift+ctrl+r.
The cache is the local copy of the pages, occasionally something goes haywire on your side, or theirs, and you get stuck with a page that isn't right. You don't need to keep your cached files, they'll be fetched again.
For what it's worth, caching only helps with unchanged files. With dynamic pages, the content changes all the time and is virtually uncacheable (though there's usually a plethora of small images that are, such as site logos, navigational icons, etc).