Comments on: Retrieve Flash Video From Firefox Cache Folder

By: pking55

pking55 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:11:12 +0000

You should note that the above will only work on Linux (I didn’t realise where I was, haha) There is probably a windows tool that can do this as well.

By: pking55

pking55 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:09:22 +0000

There is another way that will work if you can’t find the files in your browser cache. This might need to be changed slightly to work with firefox as I use Opera.

lsof | grep flash

Find the flash process (named operaplug in my case). In the second column from the left you’ll find the PID which was 14516 in my case.

ls -l /proc/14516/fd (replace 14516 with the PID you found before).

You should see symlinks pointing to files named like this /tmp/FlashXXseL1uv (deleted)

These are the missing flash files, which you can copy anywhere you like with the “cp” command, just like a normal file.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:25:06 +0000

Hi, a very helpful post indeed. But I am in need of a little. When looking for “file on disk:none”, its always none. Does this imply that the files are being stored somewhere else since I am able to view them perfectly well in the offline mode?

By: Walker

Walker — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:12:38 +0000

you may try to look for fla* files in the %temp% directory or use videocacheview.exe to locate them if possible.

By: yoyo

yoyo — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:17:02 +0000

1 Q … the file can b retrived only after it is downloaded rite ? i meaN WAT ABT haf downloaded videos ?

By: joseph

joseph — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:35:44 +0000

Thanks for informatin but I have a question. Is there a way to save longer videos such as 20mins video in firefox cache?

By: Werner Moecke

Werner Moecke — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:32:44 +0000

Awesome!! You can even retrieve swf content from the memory cache!
Just follow the steps above until step 6, then do:
- File > Save As…

That’s it.

Thanks a bunch, pal. You’re a lifesaver.