How to look at the browser cache

To accelerate the work and reduce traffic, each browser stores a lot of information: the pages that the user viewed, styles, images and other files from websites. All this is stored in the browser cache, for which a special place (folder) on the hard drive is given. There are situations when for some reason you need to look into the cache or even find some file.

In almost any of the browsers, you can view the cache in two ways - by finding the folder in which the data is stored, or using the cache program, which scans the browser data and displays them as a table with files. For example, Nirsoft has developed utilities for many popular browsers, including Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. You can download them from official sitein the section "Web Browser Tools Package".

In order to find the location of the cache in Opera, you need to enter the command “Opera: Cache” on the address line or go to the “On program” in the browser menu. There, the “cache” line of the “path” section contains information about the location of the desired folder. Just copy this path, go to the “My Computer”, insert it into the address line and click “Enter” - the folder with the cache files will open.

In Mozilla Firefox, the algorithm of actions is the same - to find out the path along which the cache folder is located, and then open it and view the contents in the program “My Computer”. To determine where the folder is stored, enter “ABOUT: CACHE” in the address bar of the browser.

If you use Chrome, the browser you need are stored in the folder “C: \\ Users \\ $ Username \\ Appdata \\ Local \\ Google \\ User Data \\ Default \\ Cache”. But in addition to the aforementioned utility for viewing the cache, there is another convenient way - to enter the command “Chrome: // Cache/” in the Chrome target line. A page with a list of files will open.

View the cache in Internet Explorer is different. Go to the menu and open the “Browser Properties”. Stay on the “General” tab, find the “Parameters” magazine in the Browser magazine and click it. A “website data parameters” window will appear, in which you need to click on the “view files” button, and in a separate window the folder with the necessary data will open.

Please note that the option of storing temporary files and the history of your visits is turned on by default. If you do not want this information to remain after the browser closing, set the function of automatic cleaning of the cache.