Cache location of Mozilla Firefox?

#1

I didn't know where else to put this. It wouldn't fit the AYHJA Tech forum, as this case is more of a detriment (to me) than an advancement in technology.

I want to save a Quicktime movie. Apparently the movie is loaded into a popup window, from a link embedded in a ShockWave Flash movie (.swf).

So therefore I can't use "File/Save As", and I can't save it by righ-clicking in the window and selecting "Page Info/Media", as the window is filled with images.

My only option is to copy the file from the cache....

But I can't find the cache! /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

Could someone please help me locate where Mozilla Firefox sets up the cache directory? thanks.

#2

The TECH section is the right place M8... /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

There are several solutions to your problem...But the Firefox cache, unless it has been reworked, is probably not it...

1. You can download quictime, and get the professional version...Assuming you don't want to pay that much, you can always...Hmmm...Find an alternative means...

2. Just open the page in IE...You can easily navigate to the IE cache and retrieve any video that you've downloaded or viewed in your browser...

If neither of these work, I have more tricks... :twisted:

#3

I can answer your question but I think you will be dissapointed when you go to look in that dir as firefox does not store temporary internet files like ie does. Assuming Windows XP installed on c: drive cache is located:
C:Documents and Settings<windows user name>Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfiles<some random string>.<profile name>Cache

to accomplish what you want to do, you might need to investigate an extension such as download embedded.

you could also try to find the url of the .mov file you want and then just plug it into a download manager. To do this you will have to look at the source code of the pages containing the swf file. somewhere in there the coder needs to tell the swf container where the .mov file is.

another option is to try a flash file decompiler. using these you can browse the interenet directly in the program, when you encounter a .swf file you can save a local copy of it and then try do uncompile it ir dissassemble it into its parts. PreFormatted Google Search

As an absolute last resort I guess you could use a different browser, but you are on your own then!!

-emanon

#4

damn beat me to it

one of these days.......

#5

LoL...

#6

thanks for all your help! cheers!

#7

so were you successful in what you wanted to do? If so what ended up working for you?

#8

I've got a question that's related to this topic: I've recently tried 2 Firefox extensions, "Download Embedded" and "VideoDownloader" to download embedded videos from sites. They've both worked well for many files but I can't figure out how to download the embedded quicktime files of movie trailers. I was wondering whether it's because of the sites themselves (Apple Trailers, Yahoo movies, etc.) or it's just that I don't know what I'm doing.

Could anyone help me figure this out?

#9

Just install QT Professional for that...

You should now be able to get to AFS Software, I'm sure there are a couple versions in there...

#10

Well, I was thinking of something along the lines of d/ling through a download manager or through an extension of Firefox as I use Media Player Classic to play ALL of my video files and would like to keep it so.

I've tried to look for the address of the .mov file in the source code and d/ling it but have come up unsuccessful.

Here's an example of one video: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount ... /trailer1/

I'd like to know if anyone can find a way to d/l that video without me having to d/l quicktime pro or having to change media player classic as my default player.