CacheViewer: A GUI frontend for Firefox’s cache
By Josh | April 16, 2008
Going through your browsers cache can provide interesting things. You will notice that it saves videos, audio, images, text, etc. from the different websites that you browse. You can of course save these things to your computer, which is especially useful for videos that you watch on sites like Youtube.
CacheViewer adds a GUI to Firefox’s “about:cache”, which provides an easy way to browse what is saved in your browsers cache. If you recently have viewed a video on Youtube, you could do a search for youtube and it will show you what files it has cached. Then, if you find the video that you want, just right click it and click “save as” to save the file to your computer. This works for images and any other form of media that Firefox may cache. Previews of images are shown in a box so that you can tell what the image is that you are looking at.
Firefox doesn’t cache certain files from sites like Pandora or Imeem, so I don’t think you’ll have any luck finding them with CacheViewer. However, it is very useful for grabbing images and media from your cache.
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Do you know of a help file for cacheviewer? At the bottom of the window there is status line which shows entries in memory and on disk. I’d like to know what it means. Also, how to view the entries in memory. In my case, it shows 49 entries in memory and 48 entries on disk. I’d like to be able to access, view, save, etc. the one in memory that isn’t on disk.