The Cache-Control general-header has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. The cache-control general-header "field is used to specify directives for caching mechanisms in both ...

In 2018, John Mueller of Google said Google does not use cache-control headers when crawling. He said then that the has no impact on GoogleBot and how it crawls your web pages. He said that again ...

Google is also asking site owners to allow Google to cache your web pages. Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s ...

Google has added a new section to its crawler and fetcher documentation for HTTP caching, which clarifies how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. With that, Gary Illyes from Google ...

Some have raised concerns that this change could break promises to web developers who assume that the "Cache-control: no-store" header means the browser will not cache the webpage.

Try to research this only returns results about Safari not respecting response Cache-Control headers. Shift-clicking Reload and Shift-Command-R do generate "Cache-Control: no-cache" in FireFox.