View FireFox’s Cache Easily
Just a quick tip. If you are running Mozilla Firefox and you want to view your cache just type about:cache in the URL bar and hit enter. You can then search though your cache and retrieve images and files easily.
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cool
- Sachin May 28th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 - Windows XP
but it’s all in text format. how do i preview the media files like jpg or swf?
- aadam October 21st, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 - Windows XP
Mine all show up as hyper links. Click on the link and it loads the image or swf.
- Thomas October 21st, 2005 at 12:29 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 - Mac OS X
but the link is to the actual website where the cache was taken from, i.e., it won’t show the file stored in the disk.
- Zadkiel August 2nd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Ubuntu Linux
Zadkiel, under the ‘Disk cache device’ listing it says ‘Cache Directory’
- Thomas August 3rd, 2006 at 6:11 am
Flock 0.7.3 - Mac OS X
Aah!!
You copy the address to the actual cache file, and firefox will automagicailly list what’s cached!
Thank you
- Zadkiel August 5th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Ubuntu Linux
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- Jake August 26th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 - SuSE Linux
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Good tip!
- MrRio September 2nd, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Ubuntu Linux
Good tip
- MrRio September 2nd, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5 - Ubuntu Linux
Yeah but how do you just see it like in IE? So you open your cache using about:cache and then copy it to address bar to see it; but all you get are hyperlinks; can’t you just see all images stored without having to click on each one (and/or save each one again)??
- Johnson October 9th, 2006 at 10:23 am
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 - Windows XP
Johnson, you might want to check out Firefox’s forms to get help on that specific question. Sounds nice though.
- Thomas October 9th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 - Mac OS X
Experimented with using the address to the disk cache location in the file explorer. It works but the file names are just mumbojumbo without even extensions, but one can sort them by size and date.
There probably is some FF plugin that should be able to do something better, but maybe I’m just hoping.
- JeffJeff August 11th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 - Windows XP
Now I’ve checked! There is a nice plugin called CacheViewer which seems to work quit nicely.
URLs, Mimetype, date, size, device (disk or RAM)
pictures are automatically shown as a thumbnail when selected.
You can choose multiple files and save. Seems like one can only delete one at a time though.
- JeffJeff August 11th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16 - Windows XP