gHacks technology news » cache viewer http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Firefox Cache Viewer Gui Frontend http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/19/firefox-cache-viewer-gui-frontend/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/19/firefox-cache-viewer-gui-frontend/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:42:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16501 firefoxThere are two ways to access the Firefox web browser cache. The cache can either be accessed from within the web browser by entering about:cache into the Firefox address bar or by opening the cache directory located in the Firefox user profile on the hard drive. The in-browser solution displays a bare-bone file browser with little comfort while the solution to browse the cache on the hard drive requires to locate the Firefox profile folder to access it. Data is still not presented in a comfortable way.

The Firefox add-on Cache Viewer offers a third option. It is basically a gui frontend for the browser cache viewer. Its advantage over the two original solutions to view the cache are numerous. This includes a visual preview of the cached item which is extremely helpful to identify images that have been placed in the cache.

It is possible to sort by url, size, mime type, cache location or date. Another handy option is the ability to use the search form to locate specific files or file types.

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Additional information about a selected cache item are displayed next to the visual preview area including the expiration date and connection headers. A right-click on one or multiple images will open a context menu with options to save the selected items to the local hard drive, to delete them or to open them in the web browser.

Cache Viewer is available for Firefox 3 and can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/19/firefox-cache-viewer-gui-frontend/feed/ 3 Firefox Cache Viewer http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/06/firefox-cache-viewer/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/06/firefox-cache-viewer/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:14:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/10/06/firefox-cache-viewer/ The cache viewer extension for firefox might be a nice add-on for some users out there. One way to look at the cache is to enter about:cache in your address bar and hit enter. This display is unfortunately not very practicable and the information displayed are scarce. The cache on the hard drive is even worse, all files are obfuscated and you can only guess what this file is about by looking at the file size and type.

Cache Viewer displays more information about the files cached and even previews them in a small window. Let us say you viewed some nice flash animations or listened to several mp3 files on some websites. It’s pretty time consuming to find out which files you need, unless you would be using cache viewer. You can sort all files in the cache by size (and other parameters) and flip through them until you find the ones that you want.

The extension offers some filters as well, you can filter parts of the file name or url to find files from a certain url for instance. It can run in it’s own window or in a tab.

The preview window is not limited to image files it is also able to display most flash files and other types of files as well.

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