Firefox loading stylesheet even though there is no stylesheet

I have a very strange problem. My firefox is ignoring the changes I made to the style sheet. I have this in my webpage and the style.css file location is right (one directory up).

<link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Because it's ignoring my new changes, I deleted everything in my style.css file, and the page still displays as though the file exists. However, if I delete the above line, then the page will display without any style.

IE is loading with the changes I made though. I have also checked my stylesheet with the W3C css validation and it has no error.

So, any body know why this is happening?

 

Rename the stylesheet and then try it

 

Hey, that works! Thank you.

But why?

 

that is funny,
and it used to happen to me when I used a free host earlier.

 

if the stylesheet is renamed it forces the browser to cache the new one, and stop using the already cached style.css, so it has to use the new coding.

 

There is a better way than renaming css file.

Its explained by Daniel Andrade CSS Refresh for Mozilla Firefox