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How do I look at individual items in cache history in Firefox 7.0.1?

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Walter Woronick
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How do I look at individual items in cache history in Firefox 7.0.1? I tried using about:cache. I clicked on "List Cache Entries" (about:cache?device=disk) for the Disk Device Cache. I was looking for a quick solution, but Firefox was not responsive even 10-15 minutes later. I finally had to kill it off in Task Manager. I think there were about 75,000 entries. (only 1,309 now). I used to use a plug in called Cache View, but this probably does not work with the current version. Is there a very quick way to do this? I might need past data, that I forgot to save, and this might be the only way to get it.

How do I look at individual items in cache history in Firefox 7.0.1? I tried using about:cache. I clicked on "List Cache Entries" (about:cache?device=disk) for the Disk Device Cache. I was looking for a quick solution, but Firefox was not responsive even 10-15 minutes later. I finally had to kill it off in Task Manager. I think there were about 75,000 entries. (only 1,309 now). I used to use a plug in called Cache View, but this probably does not work with the current version. Is there a very quick way to do this? I might need past data, that I forgot to save, and this might be the only way to get it.

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Vivek
Vivek
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hi,

If it is websites or pics from the cache, you could try opening it from the History window after enabling Work Offline and then save it from the offline mode.

Walter Woronick
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That does not work most of the time. I could only get it to work only a few times, probably less than 5% of the time. I am convinced that there is a lot more data in the cache than Firefox 7.0.1 is willing to reveal

cor-el
cor-el
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You can download this CacheViewer Version 0.7b

You can either edit the file install.rdf in that zip archive or use this extension to make Firefox install it via File > Open File.