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Asked: 2011-12-21 04:33:54 +0800 CST

Where do browsers save cookies and data?

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What is the default location for the Firefox or Chromium web browser to store data?

Also, where are the temporary data and cookies, along with user profiles, stored?

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3 Answers

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

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

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

    The user's profile for Firefox is kept under ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/. It contains cache, addons, user settings, etc.

    The user's profile for Chromium is kept under ~/.cache/chromium/Default, also contains all the files related to the user: cache, settings, addons, etc.

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  2. I think this information about the location of cookies is out of date. In Ubuntu 16.04 using Mozilla 50.1.0 the cookies are not stored in -

    ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/Cache

    In fact this Cache folder does not exist. The cookies are stored in an SQLite database file called cookies.sqlite. So the correct path name is -

    ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/cookies.sqlite

    Just to make it a bit more complicated you have to use an SQLite database browser to look at them. I hope this helps.

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  3. Hi you can browse through your /home/$your-username folder, in mine I have it as /home/home

    Generally speaking, people use ~/ as a shortcut for /home/$your-username

    so for Mozilla it will be under ~/.mozilla.

    for Chromium it will be under ~/.cache/chromium.

    you can use nautilus file manager to browse through those directories.

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