ctrl + shift + del not responding

I am on Win10 and normally clear cache on FF and Chrome using keyboard shortcut
ctrl + shift + del
but something must have happened because this command does nothing now.

Does anyone else have this issue? Can anyone recommend a fix please? Thank you

I found that Opera browser prevented this function on chrome and FF, closing Opera fixed it.

1 Answer

As the OP found, very strangely Opera being open can be the cause of this. And the solution is detailed in this thread:

To summarize, the solution involves editing your Opera preferences file.

1. Close Opera
2. Go to your profile directly, in windows this is currently at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
3. Edit the Preferences file which is a json text file. Search for "commands". There should only be a single instance of this word in the file. If there are more, then make sure it's a child of "extensions". The file isn't formatted so it's just one big string. If you're not comfortable editing with a plain text editor, you may want to use a json editor.
4. Delete everything inside the "commands" json object (which should be several shortcut keys involving ctrl + shift). After editing, you should have remaining "commands": {},
5. Save the file and close it and then re-open opera. Problem should be fixed now.

Here's a formatted example of the section after editing, see the commands object at the end:

 "extensions": { "alerts": { "initialized": true }, "blacklistupdate": { "version": "2020.3.4" }, "chrome_url_overrides": { "activity": [], "bookmarks": [ { "active": true, "entry": "chrome-extension://blahblah/manager/bookmark_manager.html" } ], "discover": [], "downloads": [], "history": [], "news": [] }, "commands": {}, "last_opera_version": ...