Where do browsers keep temporary files?

firefox chromium

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Chromium is kept under ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache.

Firefox is kept under ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache.

You can navigate to those using Nautilus and selecting View > Show Hidden Files (or press crtl+h on a Nautilus window).

For Ubuntu 11: Make sure to be in the "Home" folder first then continue with the above folder navigation.

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John

New to Ubuntu, but eager to learn. Teaching myself to program as we speak, learning ruby and python, if anyone has any suggestions or ideas for tutorials let me know, some of the tutorials have not been as accurate as i would like (the code from them didn't work).

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

John almost 2 years

How do I get in to my Temp Internet files?

In running Ubuntu 11.10 on an HP Laptop I normally use Chromium but still have Fire Fox installed
- Sanam Patel over 12 years
  
  Duplicate question w/ answer here: superuser.com/questions/223774/…
- Sabacon over 12 years
  
  You chromium-browser cache should be here by default: ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache
Patrick Dark over 5 years

This answer is apparently no longer correct at least for Firefox 63.0 on Ubuntu 18.10; there's no Cache folder at the described location. ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/*.default/cache2/entries/ appears to be the correct location.