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Does Firefox store a physical copy of its cache on the hard disk? Like, can I browse over to the folder and see which pictures and videos and such were viewed on my machine? I thought such a folder existed, but upon inspection, I can't seem to find it. Where is it?
C:\Documents and Settings\[Whatever User]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\......
Quite likely somewhere in there.
Note that From Application Data on the files are hidden. So in your windows explorer go to Tools->Folder Options->View (tab)->Select Show Hidden Files and Folders, apply
I found it, but there's no pictures or videos inside the cache folder. It's all a bunch of files without extensions named 0BADD11Ed01 or some similar series of letters/numbers.
Have a look inside one of those files. Open it up in Notepad or, better still, get an editor like viw.exe and view them in that. If it looks like text (or tagged text), it probably is. If you can see the letters "JFIF" in the first few lines, it's probably a .JPG file. If it starts "GIF87" or "GIF89", it's a GIF.
If you want a caching system that lets you browse the cache, try Smart Cache - a Java program that caches better than Firefox does. (In some cases it caches TOO well.) You can find it on Sourceforge - http://scache.sourceforge.net/ - though development has apparently stopped.
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Email me one of the files, maybe I can interpret it.
Rosuav speaks gif binary.
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Sorry, I had to.
There have been a few times where I watched to look through my cache as well, and it was all random crap.
I miss the old days (using Netscape or IE) when your cache was all real files. It was pretty handy.
I imagine storing your cache that way is very inefficient for HD space, which is probably why they don't seem to do it that way. It is a shame though. :(
When Ros says he likes his porn raw, he means in binary.Quote:
Originally posted by Rosuav
Email me one of the files, maybe I can interpret it.
Actually, there's a pretty funky way to view the Firefox cache. In the address bar, type:Quote:
Originally posted by Aristotle
There have been a few times where I watched to look through my cache as well, and it was all random crap.
I miss the old days (using Netscape or IE) when your cache was all real files. It was pretty handy.
I imagine storing your cache that way is very inefficient for HD space, which is probably why they don't seem to do it that way. It is a shame though. :(
about:cache
(There aren't supposed to be spaces in this, but there appears to be one before the colon when I view this post)
Then click 'List Cache Entries' in the Disk Cache section. The 'key names' are human-readable bits of info that you'll be able to interpret. If you find the one you want, you can find its associated file name and type. Find the file, copy it elsewhere and rename it (including the appropriate file extension). Bam, good to go.
Neat!
That totally rocks.
Since it's tangentially related to this topic, here is a list of various 'about:' pages in Firefox. And here is a Wikipedia page that delves into about: pages in general (not just for Firefox). I've found Firefox's about:cache and about:config to be the most useful, but they're neat in general. This could theoretically be broken off into a 'browser tips & tricks' thread, not sure if that'd be worthwhile though.