Google Chrome Annoyance

I have been using Google Chrome for some time now and I love it. I love it except for the fact that it can be a pain sometimes, more specifically, when it ignores my request for a non-cached web page. This has happened to me more than once at work (and now tonight at home) while debugging web applications.

Basically the scenario starts out where I am making changes to a web page, save my changes, move over to Chrome and hit the refresh button (or F5) to see the changes. If I don’t see the changes on the web page I’ll hit Shift+F5 to reload a fresh copy of the page–this does not always work and this is where I get annoyed. I get annoyed because I’ll end up spending 5-10 minutes trying to figure out why my changes are not taking effect. I’ll double, triple, even quadruple check my changes to see why there was no change on the web page, thinking “maybe I screwed up or missed some logic somewhere.” I’ll bug my co-workers, read the documentation on the function(s) I have updated in the application, swear up and down, and finally, finally once I am at the brink of going insane I’ll load up FireFox, Safari, or IE to see if the page loads…usually it does. The only remedy is clearing Chrome’s cache or restarting the browser–annoying!

According to Google’s documentation, Crtl+F5 or Shift+F5 should work. As stated though, this doesn’t always work. What’s the deal?