Hi Folks, Where does Firefox (or Mozilla for that matter) keep its cache?
In Netscape it was easy -- a whole slew of directories under ~/.netscape/cache/
But I can;t find abything with "ache" in its name that has anything to do with Firefox!
With thanks, Ted.
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:58:15PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Where does Firefox (or Mozilla for that matter) keep its cache?
In Netscape it was easy -- a whole slew of directories under ~/.netscape/cache/
But I can;t find abything with "ache" in its name that has anything to do with Firefox!
On my machine all the firefox bits are stored in .mozilla/firefox/ and then all the bits are in a directory with a 8 character "random" name ending in .default (this is designed afaik to try and block attacks against the browser trying to grab stuff off your system, like favourites, read cookies and your cache etc.).
Thanks Adam
On 10/14/06, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 02:58:15PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
Where does Firefox (or Mozilla for that matter) keep its cache?
In Netscape it was easy -- a whole slew of directories under ~/.netscape/cache/
But I can;t find abything with "ache" in its name that has anything to do with Firefox!
Find anything called "cache": du -a | grep -i cache
On my machine all the firefox bits are stored in .mozilla/firefox/ and then all the bits are in a directory with a 8 character "random" name ending in .default (this is designed afaik to try and block attacks against the browser trying to grab stuff off your system, like favourites, read cookies and your cache etc.).
Indeed, my cache lives at: ~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXXXX.default/Cache
Tim.
On Saturday 14 October 2006 14:58, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks, Where does Firefox (or Mozilla for that matter) keep its cache?
In Netscape it was easy -- a whole slew of directories under ~/.netscape/cache/
But I can;t find abything with "ache" in its name that has anything to do with Firefox!
A script of mine roots in the user's ~/.[Mm]ozilla/[Ff]irefox/*.default/[Cc]ache first and always finds it on common distros afaik (nobody's moaned otherwise).
That's where there's only one profile per user*, and I'm pretty sure the [Cc] is unnecessary, that's just cross-distro paranoia for you. :-)
Cheers,
Ten.
*list of profiles = grep ^Path= ~/.[Mm]ozilla/[Ff]irefox/profiles.ini | sed "s/Path=//" - at least for now, knowing the firefox config files, heh.
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