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Firefox Cache

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-08 2:32

Right, so i browse /b/ often with Firefox. Problem is, sometimes i open images in tabs, and forget to save them immediately.

I come back in an hour and try to save them, but Firefox is gay, and refuses to save from cache. It wants to redownload the image from the internet.

By this time, /b/ has already purged those images from the server.

Is there anyway to browse Firefox's cache, or tell Firefox to save images from cache if downloading from the server is impossible?

PS, I can't seem to do it from about:cache .. and the actual cache files don't have extensions, so i don't know which are images, which are html, swf, etc.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-08 8:02

File > werk offline. make sure you do this before you go through the history, then it should pull the images from cache unless its been overwritten by more recent pages.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-09 11:56

maybe you just do not know where firefox store its cache.
you can go to
<yourWinUserDrive>/application data/Mozilla/Firefox/<yourFfUser>/Cache
if I recon properly.

there will be some data with random filename, raname all of them to .Jpeg and preview them.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 9:15

>>3
Thousands of files

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 11:03

>>4
DOS is helpful here: C:\> rename *.* *.jpg
It's one of the things I miss about DOS - UNIX handles globs differently so can't do that without writing a script.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 11:48

>>5
That's not DOS, that's the Windows NT console subsystem, for which you can download native ports of the GNU console utilities, including bash if you prefer it, Perl, PHP, Python, as well as unique utilities not found in Unices like FAR Manager.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 11:56

>>6
Well since it recognises DOS commands (I've been using DOS since before Windows 3.1) you'll forgive me if I refer to it as DOS.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 11:58

This is where firefox SUCKS compared to IE, IE just saves the files with the proper names and extentions. Who cares where the cache is if it's an unreadable jumblefuck mess.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 12:26

>>8
I believe this is for security reasons.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 13:06

That "security" isn't enough to keep someone who really wants to know what's in your cache from finding out. It only deters the normal user from seeing the cache.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-10 13:23

>>8
You're not supposed to want to access the cache directly.

>>9
Indeed, although I admit people sometimes overdo it in the security department, when there are far more important problems elsewhere, and that extra "security" is nothing but a hassle. For example, like somebody in 4-ch said, "PUT THE CURRENT DIRECTORY BACK IN THE PATH ALREADY YOU GODDAMN HIPPIES! IT IS NOT BLOODY UNSAFE, YOU LOONS!".

>>10
Exactly, these are the cases where "security" is stupid.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 0:03

It's not security so much as it is bugfix: a problem IE has (or perhaps had) is occasionally using the wrong image, page, or plug-in simply because the cache index became corrupted and different sites served very different data using the same file name.  I did have one disturbing experience in IE where it displayed an image completely inappropriate for the site because of that a few years ago.

Firefox takes the legacy Mozilla approach of giving every file in its cache a unique near-random name rather than the original as-served name.

It can be argued that both approaches are stupid for different reasons.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 0:37

This is why i like Opera. Opera caches shit using its own naming scheme, but retains extensions. That way if I do need to (And i don't, which i'll explain in a bit) I can just browse to the cache dir, and arrange icons by type, delete, arrange icons by size, delete. and then look through shit.

As for not needing to use the cache. I have Opera set up to not check images on loadup. That way i can keep the imagesopen in tabs. Close Opera, reopen, and do whatever. The images will stay there, always loaded from cache.

Very helpful while i browse 4chan, open shit in background tabs, and then save them to disk at my leisure. Even if it's weeks from when i opened them. As long as i don't clean the cache.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 7:49

>>13
I find when I use Opera for 4chan I have to refresh pages before I see them updated. Don't suppose you know what I need to do to fix that? It's obviously using its cache to access a stale page but I don't know how to stop it. Which is a real shame because Opera is an excellent browser and I'd use it more if it didn't get in the way of my trolling.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 8:15

I have it set to "Check Documents: Always" "Check Images: Never" "Check Other: Never" uncheck "Always Check Redirect" and make sure "Empty on Exit" is unchecked, too.

The only time it ever slips up, is when Opera crashes for whatever reason. Sometimes when it crashes, some cache is lost .. other times, the cache is fine. Just be careful about closing opening multiple Opera windows, or make sure to save sessions. THough i'm not sure how session saving will affect cache.

Try it and find out.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 11:15

I haven't had a single opera crash for the past twelve months.

How the heck are you getting it to go down? Did you find some neato tidbit on the web?

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 14:29

I like the "recycle bin" feature of Opera. "o shit I closed that page... aha, here it is!"

I got a free registration code from their 10 year anniversary giveaway, so I've been using it more now that it's no longer adware. The gestures are neat once you learn them.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-11 14:32

>>15
Ah, that does it, thanks!

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 14:59

>>16
I'm usually opening up too much at once. Middle click everything i see, and if each page i open has popups or a bunch of swf or something .. usually it hangs, and then windows comes up with the "This program has performed"

But if i don't try to overwork Opera, i can keep it uncrashed for quite a while

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 15:01

>>19
Use Mozilla/Firefox. It doesn't crash.

Also, I suggest blocking popups, Flash, and PDF.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 19:18

>Use Mozilla/Firefox. It doesn't crash.
Bullshit.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 20:10

>>21
It does crash under Linux, but I was talking about the Windows version, which crashed about one time in 6 months for me, and I'm very aggressive and fast switcher.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-12 21:44

>>20
LOL

>>22
It becomes unusable after being up for a day for me.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-13 4:19

>>23
Perhaps Mozilla and Firefox are different here? I'm using the Mozilla suite.

Name: Anonymous 2005-09-13 6:53

The "preview" versions used to crash for me if I had lots of images open in tabs, recent versions have been solid as a rock.

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Name: Anonymous 2012-06-08 23:08

>>11
Wait, are you saying that the current directory should be in $PATH? You're crazy.

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