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Viewing Cache in Firefox, and downloading Flash Files.

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.

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

11 comments May 25th, 2007

GetURL and javascript

This is kind of an old problem, but just in case anyone runs into it. If you are trying to call getURL and javascript commands from an html on your local computer, then it won’t work unless you add the parameter=allowscriptaccess and value=always.

Testing in the browser gives you no feedback at all, and it just doesn’t work. But if you use the Firefox extension: Flash Tracer, then you get this message:

*** Security Sandbox Violation ***

Here are the livedocs with all the parameters you can use.

6 comments January 30th, 2007