Viewing your Cache

Ever wonder what is in your cache? Type ‘about:cache‘ in the address bar. This will bring on stats on your cache, then at the bottom of that page is a link ‘List Cache Entries’ which may take a bit too load if your cache is large. This page will list all your cache entries. Also, you can directly access the cache entries page by typing in the address bar ‘about:cache?device=disk‘. Now, keep in mind Firefox uses two caches, disk and memory. To view your memory cache, type in the address bar ‘about:cache?device=memory‘.

Also, there is the CacheViewer Extension which allows you to view the contents of both the disk and memory caches. It will also provide a GUI preview of the content, besides showing how much of your disk space and memory is being used up by the cache. Once installed, CacheViewer will be available via your Tools menu.

Permalink

3 Comments on Viewing your Cache

  1. buy_vigrxplus | July 14, 2009 at 5:55 AM |

    Pretty cool post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
    that I have really liked reading your blog posts. Anyway
    I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you post again soon!

  2. Hey my is sooooooooo long my computer
    shutdown when i went to that webadrees does this work with school computers

  3. Huh, man you saved my life with this hint (i was having trouble with an online shop and they changed their site)

2 Trackbacks & Pingbacks

  1. Some Firefox stuff October, 2006 « Symphony of Destruction
  2. Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog The Blog Year In Review: November 2006 «

Comments are closed.