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title: Clearing Your DNS Cache (Browsers)
description: "## Chrome - Open up a new tab - Visit \"chrome://net-internals/\" in the address bar - Click on DNS and clear the hosts cache - Click on Sockets and flush sockets ![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-9.png) ![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-11.png) ![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-10.png) ## Firefox - Open up a…"
url: "https://know.cynderhost.com/docs/clearing-your-dns-cache-browsers/"
updated: "2021-11-14"
category: Domain
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# Clearing Your DNS Cache (Browsers)

## Chrome

- Open up a new tab
- Visit "chrome://net-internals/" in the address bar
- Click on DNS and clear the hosts cache
- Click on Sockets and flush sockets

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-9.png)

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-11.png)

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-10.png)

## Firefox

- Open up a new tab
- Enter "about:networking#dns" into the address bar and hit enter
- Click on "Clear DNS Cache"

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-12.png)

## Safari

- Open Safari
- Enable the Develop menu by click on "Preferences" -> Advanced
- Check the "Show Develop menu" option and click save
- In the Develop menu, click "Empty Caches"

## Edge

- Edge follows a very similar procedure to Chrome
- Open up a new tab
- Enter "edge://net-internals/" in the address bar
- Flush the DNS hosts cache and flush all sockets

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-13.png)

![](https://know.cynderhost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/image-14.png)