With all the big changes with Firefox recently, all the info about their cache location has become outdated. Or has Firefox changed so much that this question is moot?
Running mac osx 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I need to recover some files that are most likely still in the cache. Thanks!
Best Answer
According to the MozillaZine Knowledge Base article Profile folder - Firefox:
This section of that article describes the default cache location. You can also see where it is with this url:
about:cache
and change it by entering this one:about:config
and then changing the preference named browser.cache.disk.parent_directory.Update:
I haven't updated the screenshot, but this still works in FireFox 15.0.1.
Here's a screenshot of Firefox 13.0.1 running on OSX 0.6.8 (Snow Leopard). As you can see the cache folder has been put in a custom location on another volume using
about:config
.