Quite often on various forums I come across the question “ where is the browser cache located?. Since this issue is closely related to the theme of our site, I could not ignore it and decided in today’s article to tell where the cache of the most popular browsers installed in the operating room is stored Windows system 7, 8, 10.
You may be interested in the article ““, in which we described in detail how to automatically clear the history of visited sites after finishing work on the Internet
Opera browser cache
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable\Cache
Google Chrome browser cache
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1\Cache
Mozilla Firefox browser cache
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\zxcvb5678.default\cache2\entries
Browser cache Yandex Browser
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Yandex\YandexBrowser\User Data\Default\Cache
Internet Explorer browser cache
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\
All information is relevant for versions installed using the installation file. The cache of portable versions of the browser (which do not require installation) may be located in other folders.
Use the program if you need to restore a deleted cache. Also using the search form on the site, according to the words “cache browser”, you will find a large number of programs that work with the cache of various browsers.
Every modern browser by default, it partially saves the information of web pages, which significantly reduces the waiting time and the amount of traffic consumed when opening them again. This stored information is nothing more than a cache. And today we will look at how in the Internet browser Google Chrome you can increase the cache.
Increasing the cache is necessary, of course, to store more information from websites on your hard drive. Unfortunately, unlike the browser Mozilla Firefox, where increasing the cache is available by standard means, in Google Chrome a similar procedure is performed in slightly different ways, but if you have a compelling need to increase the cache of a given web browser, then this task is quite easy to cope with.
How to expand the cache in the Google Chrome browser?
Considering that Google considered it necessary not to add a cache increase function to its browser menu, we will take a slightly different tricky route. First, we need to create a browser shortcut. To do this, go to the folder with installed program(usually this location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application), click on the application "chrome" right-click and select the option in the pop-up menu "Create shortcut" .
Right-click on the shortcut and in the additional menu that pops up, select the option "Properties" .
In the pop-up window, double-check that you have a tab open "Label" . In the field "Object" The address leading to the application is posted. We need to enter two parameters to this address separated by a space:
Disk-cache-dir="c:\chromeсache"
Disk-cache-size=1073741824
As a result, the updated “Object” column in your case will look something like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disk-cache-dir="c:\chromeсache" --disk-cache-size=1073741824
This command means that you increase the size of the application cache by 1073741824 bytes, which is equivalent to 1 GB. Save your changes and close this window.
Launch the created shortcut. From now on, Google Chrome will work in increased cache mode, but remember that now the cache will accumulate in significantly larger volumes, which means it will need to be cleared in a timely manner.
We hope the tips in this article were useful to you.
Translated from English, cache means “cache” or “secret reserves.” And in browsers and, in particular, in Google Chrome, this word refers to a special storage that contains downloaded elements of web pages: media files (audio and video), photos, GIFs, pictures, texts.
Such a “container” is necessary for the browser to quickly display a web page when it is requested again. That is, it will not re-download elements, but will “retrieve” them from the cache.
You may already have a question: “Why clear the cache memory if it is entrusted with such a responsible mission?” The need to clear the cache in Google Chrome can be compared to cleaning the workplace, for example, after assembling or repairing some structure or equipment (car, furniture, computer, etc.). You won’t leave oily rags, scattered tools, shavings and sawdust, traces of fuel oil and other signs of your work where you worked. That's right, everything needs to be removed!
In our case, the concept is absolutely the same. After working on the Internet (talking on social networks, surfing websites), you need to clear the cache in the Google Chrome browser. In other words, clean up after yourself.
And if this procedure is not systematically performed after Internet sessions, the cache will become cluttered and, moreover, the free space of the system partition (drive C) will be occupied by absolutely useless files. And it can even get to such a point (in particularly advanced cases) that the cache of the Google Chrome browser “swells” to incredible sizes. AND operating system The computer will sound the alarm: “There is no free space on drive C!” After all, even during one web surfing session, tens and hundreds of megabytes of temporary files can accumulate in the storage. Once used, of course, they need to be removed. Cleaning Chrome First!
This article will tell you how to clear the cache in Google Chrome. in various ways- completely and selectively.
Complete cleanup on PC
Method No. 1: using a standard function
1. In the upper right corner of Google Chrome, click on the menu button (three dots icon).
2. In the drop-down list, place the cursor on the “Additional tools” item.
3. In the submenu, click the option “Delete data…. "
You can also access the cleaning panel using hot keys - “Ctrl + Shift + Del”.
And if you want to move from the “History” tab, on the right side of it, click the “Clear...” link.
4. In the settings menu (the panel that opens on top of the page), in the first column, set the time period to “all time” (to clear the browser cache completely).
5. Check the “Images…” line. saved in cache."
Attention! Through this panel you can also clear cookies in your browser. To perform this operation, you must enable the “Cookies…” option (also check the box with a mouse click).
6. To clear the cache, click “Clear History”.
Method number 2: using the Click&Clean addon
1. Go to the official extension store for Google Chrome: the “Services” icon in the panel under the address bar → Online store…
2. In the “Search…” field, enter the name of the add-on - Click&Clean. Press the Enter key.
3. Go to the addon page. Click the “Install” button. Wait for the download and installation to complete.
4. Click the addon button (it will appear at the top right of the browser window after installation).
5. To clear the browser cache, select the “Delete personal data...” block in the tiled menu that drops out.
Attention! The addon allows you to assign additional actions along with deleting the cache. To install them:
hover over the cleaning block;
click on the “gear” that appears;
in the new window, check the boxes next to the actions that need to be performed (for example, “Close all tabs before cleaning”);
Click the Clean button.
Cleaning on mobile devices
To clear the cache on smartphones and tablets running iOS and Android, you need to perform almost the same steps:
- Open Chrome.
- In the panel, tap on the “Menu” button.
- In the list of options, go to: History → Clear history.
- In the list of items, select “Files... in the cache.”
- In the cleaning period setting, set the value to “all time”.
- Tap your finger on the Clear History button.
How to delete the cache of only the open (current) page?
Sometimes it is impossible to track changes on an open web page that occur over short periods of time, due to the fact that the browser loads “stale” (previously downloaded) elements from the cache the next time it is requested.
In such cases, it is necessary to perform selective storage cleanup - delete only files current page. And then update it and re-download it. This operation is performed step by step as follows:
1. To switch to editing mode, while in the Chrome window, press the “F12” key (a menu for adjustment will open on the right side of the window).
2. Hover your cursor over the “Refresh Page” button (located at right side from the address bar). Press and hold the left button until the menu opens.
3. In the list of options, click “Clear cache and hard reset” so that the browser reloads the page from the server without accessing the storage.
4. To exit the editing mode, in the “Elements...” block. » Click on the “cross” icon.
This concludes our review. Happy cleaning! Always keep your browser clean and tidy. Learn more about viewing Google Chrome cache contents.
Services and tricks with which you can find EVERYTHING.
Why is this needed: Did you briefly read the article in the morning and decided to take a closer look in the evening, but it’s not on the website? A few years ago you visited a useful site, today you remembered it, but there’s nothing left on the same domain? This has happened to each of us. But there is a way out.
Everything that goes on the Internet is stored there forever. If some information is posted on the Internet for at least a couple of days, there is a high probability that it has become the property of the collective mind. And you will be able to reach her.
Let's talk about simple and publicly available ways to find sites and pages that have been deleted for some reason.
1. Google cache that remembers everything
Google specifically stores the text of all web pages so that people can view them if the site is unavailable. To view the version of a page from the Google cache, you need to address bar dial:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.site/
Where http://www.site/ must be replaced with the address of the site you are looking for.
2. Web-archive, which contains the entire history of the Internet
6. Archive.is, for your own cache
If you need to save some web page, you can do this on archive.is without registration and SMS. There is also a global search for all versions of pages ever saved by users of the service..
7. Caches of other search engines, you never know
If Google, Baidu and Yandex did not manage to save anything sensible, but a copy of the page is really needed, then we go to seacrhenginelist.com, go through the search engines and hope for the best (so that some bot visits the site at the right time).
8. Browser cache when all else fails
You can’t view the entire page this way, but pictures and scripts from some sites certain time are stored on your computer. They can be used to search for information. For example, using a picture from the instructions, you can find a similar one on another site. Briefly about the approach to viewing cache files in different browsers:
Safari
Looking for files in a folder ~/Library/Caches/Safari.
Google Chrome
In the address bar we type chrome://cache
Opera
In the address bar we type opera://cache
Mozilla Firefox
Type in the address bar about:cache and find on it the path to the directory with the cache files.
9. Trying to download the page file directly from the server
We go to whoishostingthis.com and find out the address of the server on which the site is or was located:
After that, open the terminal and using the command curl trying to download the required page:
What to do if nothing helps at all
If none of the methods yielded results, and you desperately need to find the deleted page, then all that remains is to contact the site owner and shake out the treasured information from him. First, you can get through the contacts associated with the site on emailhunter.com: 
Services and tricks with which you can find EVERYTHING.
Why is this needed: Did you briefly read the article in the morning and decided to take a closer look in the evening, but it’s not on the website? A few years ago you visited a useful site, today you remembered it, but there’s nothing left on the same domain? This has happened to each of us. But there is a way out.
Everything that goes on the Internet is stored there forever. If some information is posted on the Internet for at least a couple of days, there is a high probability that it has become the property of the collective mind. And you will be able to reach her.
Let's talk about simple and publicly available ways to find sites and pages that have been deleted for some reason.
1. Google Cache who remembers everything
Google specifically stores the text of all web pages so that people can view them if the site is unavailable. To view the version of the page from the Google cache, type in the address bar:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.iphones.ru/
Where http://www.iphones.ru/ must be replaced with the address of the site you are looking for.
2. Web-archive, which contains the entire history of the Internet
6. Archive.is, for your own cache
If you need to save some web page, you can do this on archive.is without registration and SMS. There is also a global search for all versions of pages ever saved by users of the service. There are even several saved copies of iPhones.ru.
7. Caches of other search engines, you never know
If Google, Baidu and Yandex did not manage to save anything sensible, but a copy of the page is really needed, then we go to seacrhenginelist.com, go through the search engines and hope for the best (so that some bot visits the site at the right time).
8. Browser cache when all else fails
You can’t view the entire page this way, but images and scripts from some sites are stored on your computer for a certain time. They can be used to search for information. For example, using a picture from the instructions, you can find a similar one on another site. Briefly about the approach to viewing cache files in different browsers:
Safari
Looking for files in a folder ~/Library/Caches/Safari.
Google Chrome
In the address bar we type chrome://cache
Opera
In the address bar we type opera://cache
Mozilla Firefox
Type in the address bar about:cache and find on it the path to the directory with the cache files.
What to do if nothing helps at all
If none of the methods yielded results, and you desperately need to find the deleted page, then all that remains is to contact the site owner and shake out the treasured information from him. To begin with, you can get through the contacts associated with the site on
