

How to move firefox cache)ġ) Enter about:config in the address bar of Firefox, and if there is a prompt "Proceed with Caution", click "Accept the Risk and Continue", and open the "Advanced Preferences" window, as shown in Figure 2:Ģ) Copy "_directory" into the search text box, and select "String", as shown in Figure 3:ģ) Click the "Add(+)", copy the Firefox cache location(such as D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\temp) into the text box, as shown in Figure 4:Ĥ) Click "Save", the ". If there is no favicon.ico found then Firefox will use one of the following icons default Firefox icon, the World icon or White Paper icon instead. How to change Firefox cache location(i.e. No icon in cache - Firefox will attempt to download the favicon.ico from the URL, if success it will add the favicon.ico to the cache and use this icon.
#Internet cache firefox Offline#
From the figure, you can see that there are two, namely, disk(or Disk cache device) and Appcache(or Offline cache device).ģ. On the right side of the "Storage disk location" is the path to the temporary file of firefox. Enter about:cache in the address bar of Firefox, and press "Enter" on your keyboard, open the window as shown in Figure 1:Ģ. III, How to view and change Firefox cache locationġ. Similarly "UserName" is the user name of the current login system, just change it to your own login user name. The temporary folder of the XP system is placed in the "Documents and Settings" directory, so the Firefox cache location is:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\CacheĬ:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\OfflineCache II, Mozilla Firefox cache location(XP, Windows 2003) If that doesn't work, see the "How to view and change Firefox cache location" below. Hint: If the above path cannot be found, return to the "Profiles" folder first, and then find the folder containing "default".

If you are not logged in with "Administrator", but with "MyName", the location of the Firefox cache becomes(Win7 as an example):Ĭ:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault\Cache The "Administrator" in the path is the user name currently logged into the system. The cache files in "cache2" are mainly in the "entries" folder. Win7 and Windows8 systems are on:Ĭ:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault\CacheĬ:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault\OfflineCacheĬ:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault-release-1\cache2Ĭ:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fault-release-1\OfflineCache
#Internet cache firefox windows 8#
I, Mozilla Firefox cache location(Windows7, Windows 8 and Windows 10)Įven if Firefox is installed on a non-system drive(such as drive D), its cache location will be on the system drive by default. To open its temporary folder, you need to know the specific location(path) different versions of Windows system, the location of firefox temporary files is different, so this article will summarize the specific directory of the firefox temporary folder of Win7(Windows8), Windows10 and XP(Windows 2003), and then share the method of changing its temporary file directory(path). You can directly open the directory where the temporary folder is located from the ie browser, but Firefox does not have such an option.
