Where is Firefox cached?


SMBiggs

With all the recent major changes to Firefox, all information about where it caches is outdated. Or has Firefox changed so much that this issue isn't fixed?

Running mac osx 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I need to restore some files that are most likely still in the cache. Thanks!

Martino

According to the MozillaZine Knowledge Base article Profile Folder - Firefox :

Apple Computer

The profile folder is in one of the following locations:

~/Library/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder>
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder> 

The tilde (~) points to the current user's home folder, so ~/Library is the /Macintosh HD/Users/Library folder.

This section of the article describes the default cache location. You can also use url: to see its location about:cacheand change it by entering a URL : and then change the preference about:configcalled browser.cache.disk.parent_directory .

renew:

I haven't updated the screenshots, but it still works in FireFox 15.0.1.

Here is a screenshot of Firefox 13.0.1 running on OSX 0.6.8 (Snow Leopard). As you can see, the cache folder has been placed in another volume using a custom location about:config.

Screenshot of Firefox 13.0.1 running on OSX 0.6.8 (Snow Leopard)

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