Where is Firefox's Temp Internet Files folder

Seanie M

Like IE has its own TempIntFiles folder, where is Firefox's? I am getting a location upon entering about:cache, but I'm not getting a lot of files, in that folder.

Reason: Been viewing movie trailers online, and while I have been able to copy some from e.g. IE's TIF folder, other movie trailers don't seem to exist in it, in either browser, yet play automatically when I view them 'online'.

Couldn't nail anything in the long search I tried on these boards.

Seanie.

Karoma

Check your profile.
Older versions:
Typically documents and settings\username\Application Data\mozilla\ff\profiles\something.default\cache IIRC (No FF on this machine to check)

Newer versions use Local Settings (Hidden by default) IIRC

Seanie M

Yeah, thats what I found already, but, compared to IE's TIF folder, there's only a handful of files in there, AND they are all cryptic in both name and type.

Seanie.

Karoma

Seanie M wrote:

Yeah, thats what I found already, but, compared to IE's TIF folder, there's only a handful of files in there, AND they are all cryptic in both name and type.

Seanie.

I know that FF encrypts the filenames for security reasons (Try make it more awkward to execute malicious code..) -> are there any large files in there that may be the movies? (try clearing the cache and loading the page again?)

They may be streaming the contents (ex: FLV + SWF) .. provide an example perhaps?

Seanie M

Karoma wrote:

I know that FF encrypts the filenames for security reasons (Try make it more awkward to execute malicious code..) -> are there any large files in there that may be the movies? (try clearing the cache and loading the page again?)

They may be streaming the contents (ex: FLV + SWF) .. provide an example perhaps?

Yeah, a couple of 8 to 11 Meg files... no extensions, or details about what they are when Properties is clicked.

Karoma

*shrug* try moving them to another folder and renaming them (to the appropriate extension) if you know what they should be..
Otherwise, just View Source on the webpage and copy and paste the location of the movie(s) to wget or similar (I'm sure there must be an app. to automate / simplify this process - FlashGet perhaps?)

Seanie M

Tried that Karoma, but no luck. Tried giving it the extensions .mov and .qt... am I missing other Quicktime extensions for movies?

Seanie.

BopNiblets

I generally use AdBlock to get the urls of embedded QT files, or failing that, the View Source + Search for ".mov" works sometimes.

Seanie M

BopNiblets wrote:

I generally use AdBlock to get the urls of embedded QT files, or failing that, the View Source + Search for ".mov" works sometimes.

Not in Firefox I'm afraid. pretty much all the files in that folders are extension-less!

SolarNexus

I cant imagine why FF would keep executable cache (*.swf, *.mov, *.avi etc) -- I would expect those sorts of things to be cleared on exit; unlike IE.