The DevTools disable cache checkbox applies only while DevTools is open on that tab
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:53:00.020Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:53:00.020Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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The Disable cache option in the Network panel suppresses the HTTP cache for the inspected tab only, and only while DevTools stays open. Close the panel and requests are served from cache again, which is why a caching fix appears to work while you are debugging and reverts the moment you stop watching. The setting belongs to that DevTools instance, not to the profile, so another tab without DevTools open is unaffected.
For a durable check, use a hard reload with DevTools closed, an incognito window, or curl and read the response headers directly. To see what the cache actually did rather than what you configured, read the Size column, which shows a disk cache or memory cache label instead of a transferred byte count when the response never touched the network.
Source: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/network
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