Viewing Cache in Firefox, and downloading Flash Files.

May 25th, 2007

Coming from using IE, where you have the “temporary internet files” folder. You get used to getting your swf files from there. But with Firefox if you go to the cache folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\********.default\Cache
You just don’t get the files.

But if you type this in your firefox address bar:

about:cache?device=memory

…you get a list of files, and can right-click them and download them

Another better way to manage this is with this add-on is: Firefox Cache viewer

Updated: Here’s an image of the add-on:
You don’t get a preview of the SWF files, but you do get a preview of images.

CacheViewer

You can also search and you get a bit more info of each file.


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11 Comments

  • 1. yeah&hellip  |  2007-05-30 at 4.10 am

    I get most of mine from exporting them. Oh do you mean grabbing other peoples files to decompile them or something?

  • 2. Danno&hellip  |  2007-05-30 at 1.50 pm

    Yeah.. Sometimes you might want to see how a SWF works.. Or you’d like to extract some bitmap or vector artwork. This comes in handy.
    It’s also useful for any content. Like FLV’s, javascripts and images.

  • 3. » Featured Firefox &hellip  |  2007-06-14 at 11.00 am

    [...] If you prefer the old-fashioned way of browsing your cache, in Windows you can navigate to C:Documents and Settingsuser nameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles********.defaultCache and see the hodge-podge of files that make up your cache. CacheViewer is a free download and works anywhere the ‘fox does. CacheViewer [Mozilla via danieltome] [...]

  • 4. Techzi » Blog Archi&hellip  |  2007-06-14 at 11.07 am

    [...] If you prefer the old-fashioned way of browsing your cache, in Windows you can navigate to C:Documents and Settingsuser nameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles********.defaultCache and see the hodge-podge of files that make up your cache. CacheViewer is a free download and works anywhere the ‘fox does. CacheViewer [Mozilla via danieltome] [...]

  • 5. ShanKri-la » Firefo&hellip  |  2007-06-21 at 9.26 am

    [...] Cache Viewer: This extension is GUI Front-end of “about:cache”. Allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files. I think this is very useful if you download a bunch of images and looking for them via your cache as this shows you an image preview. [via danieltome] [...]

  • 6. Jorge Silva&hellip  |  2007-07-13 at 7.03 pm

    Fantastic!!! I was stuck with Sothink software but this is a great, I mean GREAT tip ;) Keep up the good work!

  • 7. adit&hellip  |  2007-10-03 at 6.38 pm

    thank’s for the article, now i try to install firefox cache viewer plugin

  • 8. pyro&hellip  |  2008-05-02 at 11.17 am

    but how do u use it?

  • 9. Danno&hellip  |  2008-05-02 at 12.15 pm

    @pyro: Just go to the Firefox Tools menu item and select CacheViewer from the list

  • 10. pyro&hellip  |  2008-05-03 at 7.55 am

    Oh.

    I’m stupid. Thanks.

  • 11. killerxcartoon&hellip  |  2008-06-06 at 4.57 am

    Please add options “cache button on status bar ” and “cache button on tool bar “!

    and suport Firefox 3 RC2 !!

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