myfujiang 0 Report post Posted January 26, 2008 You can access your FireFox cache files by typing this "about:cache?device=disk" into your FF URL bar There is the cache directory will tell you the directory in which cache is stored, this is not IE and you'll not be able to browse by going to that directory, because its in encrypted form. If you want to browse your cache, you're in the page! The about:cache?device=disk is the disk cache page! browse around in here. This is completely different to what is temporary internet files in IE. Use the quick find function by pressing / (forward slash) and type in keywords to go a particular element in cache, Use F3 to go to next search result . Use Shift+F3 to go to previous result. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pop 0 Report post Posted January 26, 2008 hey mate!that is really cool option you can access through firefox. there is also one more way to access your cache, and even find some downloaded movies or videos on your computer. just show your hidden files go to c:\documents and settings\application data\firefox. Of course this is not proper root, as i can't really remember proper root couse there is so many application datas and users on computer, but if you browse those folders for a while i'm sure you can find it! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
demank 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2008 hey mate!that is really cool option you can access through firefox. there is also one more way to access your cache, and even find some downloaded movies or videos on your computer. just show your hidden files go to c:\documents and settings\application data\firefox. Of course this is not proper root, as i can't really remember proper root couse there is so many application datas and users on computer, but if you browse those folders for a while i'm sure you can find it! really want something different? i used drive D:// as my cache.., Specify where to store the cache. To specify in which folder the cache is stored, use about:config to add the String preference browser.cache.disk.parent_directory, and set the value to D:\firefox_cache. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jezstarr 0 Report post Posted October 9, 2008 Wow never really known this before, i knew there was a way of viewing it but never knew how.And interesting to read your advice demank. Well its right when they say you learn something new every day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted April 18, 2009 FirefoxYour Firefox CacheI found the cache in this directory: C:Users<user_name>AppDataLocalMozillaFirefoxProfiles Here you can find a ton of random folders in which FF keeps the cache! For example I found the movies I wanted in this subdirectory "5f3rc7o6.Default" BTW: The files are not actually encrypted but they do have funny names! For movies look for big files (over 2 Megs or something) and change the name with the appropriate extension (FLV in most cases) /txtmngr/images/smileys/smiley2.Gif-reply by philips14c Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted May 7, 2009 ACDsee 5.0 will show image files and some flash files as well. Just as (G)philips says, change the larger files to .Flv or even .Vid and then do an "open with" using GOM player and it will play them (VLC does not). In later versions you have to enable: "try to decode files of unknown extensions". To find the folder: Type "about:cache" in the Firefox menu bar and look under the "Disk cache device" (see example below running Ubuntu). Ubuntu sees the files out of the box: Disk cache device Number of entries: 537 Maximum storage size: 50000 KiB Storage in use: 14684 KiB Cache Directory: /home/ubuntu/.Mozilla/firefox/6zeacgqj.Default/Cache -reply by NoExpert Share this post Link to post Share on other sites