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Avinash Raj
Asked: 2013-10-30 22:18:39 +0800 CST

How to clear browser's cache and cookies from terminal

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I want to clear my firefox cache and cookies from terminal.
What can i do?

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4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To clean the cookies from terminal you can use the following command:

    rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/cookies.sqlite

    To clean all the cache, you can use:

    rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/sessionstore.js
rm -r ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/*.default/*

    But, better you can make a backup of these files if you want to restore them latter:

    mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/firefox/backup ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/backup
mv ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite  ~/.mozilla/firefox/backup
mv ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/sessionstore.js ~/.mozilla/firefox/backup
mv ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/*.default/* ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/backup
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  2. I would like to weigh in on this issue. I have set Firefox to automatically clear all cache, cookies, etc., when I quit.

    Firefox menu: Edit > Preferences > Privacy

    History: Select "Use Custom Settings for History"

    • All items are checked
    • Always accept all cookies, but keep until I close Firefox
    • Clear history when FF closes: Settings: Everything is checked except Delete Saved Passwords.

    If I want to clear the history, etc. while Firefox is running, I simply hit Ctrl-Shift-Delete and choose what to delete.

    If Firefox is NOT running, then there is no need to run the script, as the offending stuff has already been deleted. ALMOST. Turns out all of the thumbnails are still resident in ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal and ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail. For these, I wrote a little script:

    #!/bin/bash
echo "shredding cache"
find ~/.cache/thumbnails -type f -name "*.png" -exec shred -f -u -z -n 1 {} \;
echo "finished shredding"

    * I fire that on a cronjob, every 3 hours.

    But an even simpler way is to run bleachbit. Just as fast to click bleachbit off the menu as it is to open a terminal and run a script. For me, anyway.

    Good luck!

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  3. The proper way of clearing the Firefox's cache (execute as a user, not root):

    $ rm -rf ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/????????.*/cache2/*

    The proper way of clearing the Firefox's cookies (execute as a user, not root):

    $ rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/????????.*/cookies.sqlite

    Works for both Debian and Ubuntu.

    Works for multiple Firefox user profiles.

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  4. I at least found a proper solution:

    first go to your home location

    press ctrl+h

    open folder .cache

    open folder mozilla

    open folder firefox

    open the (anything).default folder

    open the cache folder

    delete all folders in this

    then open Firefox

    go to edit, preferences and delete all cache and cookies once

    and i assure u the your problem will be solved

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