Posted by David Graham on 02/22/06 20:49

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
news:dtht3d$p85$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
> __/ [ David Graham ] on Wednesday 22 February 2006 14:27 \__
>
> > Hi
> > Firefox 1.5 makes it easy to clear the cache but I would like to know
the
> > location of the cache so I can store something from it for later use.
Does
> > anyone know where the cache is stored on Windows XP.
> > thanks
> > David
>
> Cache in Firfox is stored as large chunks of aggregated files, which are
> often hard to interpret as-are. In Linux, Firefox cache is located under:
>
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<user>.default/Cache
>
>
> ...but, but, but...
>
> In Windows XP it should be under your profile's "Application
> Settings/Firefox/<user>/Cache" or some variation of that. I cannot recall
> the exact location, but it's there...
>
> For completeness, in Mac OSX, it should reside under a similarly
structures
> directory while the installation paths are (by default):
> /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/
>
> And in Windows:
>
> C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
>
> These are all valuable locations to keep in mind if you ever wish to
extend
> Firefox to include search plug-ins, user-tailored CSS files, and more.
> There's also the issue of profile duplication and backup.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Roy
>
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Found it at C:\Documents and Settings\david\Local Settings\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\406mllxj.default\Cache
but the files don't look like .html, .jpg, .swf etc. Don't know how to use
what I have found, how do I use what's there?
thanks
David

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