Re: [tlug] Read my Firefox's cache contents on Linux

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Alain, Jim,

Thank you for responding.

Alain Hoang wrote:
> this help?
> http://www.moztips.com/bbbook/index.php?postid=381&postdesc=Visitor+Submitted%3A+Grabbing+Firefox+Cache+Files
>   
That sheds a little more light on the situation, yes. Thank you for 
sending that link.

However, after playing around with it a little more, it seems that I can 
grab images out of the cache, but no text seems to be stored. Or at 
least, text can not be accessed with this method.

Jim wrote:
> try grep -ir '<data scrap>' <directory>. 
This seems kind of promising. The results that come back are a little 
unwieldy, but I am seeing fragments of relevant text.

What I can't figure out about this, though, is how the text is being 
broken up. For example, I search for my name, "Dave", in the Cache, and 
it returns a whole bunch of text. Some of which contains sentences with 
my name in it, others which don't.

Depending on what I search for, it also sometimes says this:
Binary file Cache/_CACHE_003_ matches

Sometimes it returns that and text, and sometimes text without that, so 
I'm not sure what that means.

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Dave M G
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