There are times when I'd like to move to my home directory one or two of
the graphics files the browser has retrieved when presenting a web page.

Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files? I can retrieve
youtube mp4s from /tmp but ordinary jpgs aren't found there.

I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 and Firefox 3

Thanks.
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· John Savage <rookswood@suburbian.com.au> schrieb:

> Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files?

In the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-ID>/Cache folder.

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John Savage wrote:
> There are times when I'd like to move to my home directory one or two of
> the graphics files the browser has retrieved when presenting a web page.

Right-click --> 'save image as'?

What am I missing?

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>> Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files?
> In the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-ID>/Cache folder.

It's called a profile directory. A profile contains your bookmarks,
passswords, history, cache, ... "firefox -p" would bring up the profile
manager.

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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:52:08 +0200, Martin Schnitkemper wrote:

> · John Savage <rookswood@suburbian.com.au> schrieb:
>
>> Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files?
>
> In the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-ID>/Cache folder.
>

However finding anything in there is not easy, filenames are just a hex
string. If jbb's suggestion doesn't work for some reason open about:cache
in a new tab and list your disk cache from there.
You can also look at Page Info <CTL-I>, look in the Media section.

On 2008-07-20, johnny bobby bee <useraddshine-no_spam_eh@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>
> John Savage wrote:
>> There are times when I'd like to move to my home directory one or two of
>> the graphics files the browser has retrieved when presenting a web page.
>
> Right-click --> 'save image as'?
>
> What am I missing?
>
That works with still images or animated gifs; the OP mentioned
Youtube. Get the Download Helper extension for firefox. Or
right-click on the page, select "View Page Info" and "Media".

Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 2008-07-20, johnny bobby bee <useraddshine-no_spam_eh@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> John Savage wrote:
>>> There are times when I'd like to move to my home directory one or two of
>>> the graphics files the browser has retrieved when presenting a web page.
>> Right-click --> 'save image as'?
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
> That works with still images or animated gifs; the OP mentioned
> Youtube. Get the Download Helper extension for firefox. Or
> right-click on the page, select "View Page Info" and "Media".
>
To put it more crudely, how do you grub around inside ff's cache? - an
equivalent of 'pasco' for FF would be might handy sometimes.

Mike Scott wrote:
> Bill Marcum wrote:
>> On 2008-07-20, johnny bobby bee <useraddshine-no_spam_eh@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> John Savage wrote:
>>>> There are times when I'd like to move to my home directory one or
>>>> two of
>>>> the graphics files the browser has retrieved when presenting a web
>>>> page.
>>> Right-click --> 'save image as'?
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>> That works with still images or animated gifs; the OP mentioned
>> Youtube. Get the Download Helper extension for firefox. Or
>> right-click on the page, select "View Page Info" and "Media".
>>
> To put it more crudely, how do you grub around inside ff's cache? - an
> equivalent of 'pasco' for FF would be might handy sometimes.

Non-interactively (eg from a shell script) that is.

"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files?
>> In the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-ID>/Cache folder.
>
>It's called a profile directory. A profile contains your bookmarks,
>passswords, history, cache, ... "firefox -p" would bring up the profile
>manager.

$ firefox -p
run-mozilla.sh: Cannot execute /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin.pure.

Maybe this means that my firefox is not correctly installed?

But you prompted me to go looking for a profile file, and this
looks like it:

$ cat ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=zika351z.default

Thanks.
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Martin Schnitkemper <news.trash.5.mschnitk@spamgourmet.com> writes:
>John Savage <rookswood@suburbian.com.au> schrieb:
>
>> Where could I find Firefox's temporary graphics files?
>
>In the ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your-ID>/Cache folder.

Exactly what I wanted.

It's ~/.mozilla/firefox/zika351z.default/Cache here I discovered, but
I see how I can change that.
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