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Old 11-03-2004, 12:15 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Default Firefox Temp folder?

Iam using a firefox browser in feodra 1. Where will be the temp internet folder ?. I need to get an swf file from the temp. Cant find it in firefox folder thou.
I googled it and found that, temp internet files are stored in /var/tmp..not there either?

So where do the temp internet files go? :rolleyes:

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Old 11-04-2004, 08:55 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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its in /tmp/*.tmp more than likely, it will change each time, right now mine is called sv001.tmp and its in /tmp
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Hey horndude,
HTML files are stored as .TMP ?? So i cannot extract HTML files or its contents from these temp files? There are no HTML files in the /tmp folder.
And btw, is it safe to remove the contents of the /tmp folder. I find lot of files in there....and is it similar to windows temp? deleting it is no problem?

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no thats the directory, in llinux sometimes a directory will start with a "."

try ls -al in your home directory from a terminal and you will see that all your config files will be listed and they will all start with a "."

in this case though a directory is created in /tmp by firefox and im guessing its renamed each time, so if you go to /tmp and try ls *.tmp it will show up , the firefox temp files will be INSIDE that directory, like I said mine is in /tmp/sv001.tmp

yes you can delete the temp files if you want, but your system should do it on its own periodically

just navigate there and take a look, isnt hard, and it can be done while its running
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Horndude,
Great! I found them in the folder " /root/.mozilla/firefox/cache" .. as you said, the folder with the "." was hiding in my root dir
Got the HTMl files....


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