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Old 11-07-2010, 07:02 PM   #1
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Are thumbnails saved somewhere?


Hey
I use Slackware 13.1 and browsing with Firefox.

When I browse a site, and there are some image thumbnails which I don't open, are these "un-clicked" thumbnails saved somewhere in my computer after I shut down my system?

Also, even if I actually click a thumbnail to view the image full-size, is this image saved somewhere (like a temp or something) after I turn off my laptop?

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Old 11-07-2010, 07:21 PM   #2
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Hi -

On Windows, thumbnails are stored in a little, COM/ActiveX-based embedded database called "thumbs.db":

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...ia-windows-api

Gnome and KDE desktops have their own (much simpler!) methods for managing thumbnails.

But in your case - there's absolutely nothing "magic" about a thumbnail. It's just an image file (.png, .jpg, .png - whatever) that's downloaded, displayed, and saved in the Firefox cache like any other image file:

Quote:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/new...fox-cache.html

$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/<some-id-no>.default/Cache/

The some-id-no differs from user to user. For eg. on my a/c on my linux box, it is qknpyb7a now.

If I reinstall firefox, or I create a new profile, another id will be generated, etc.

On your system, the id may be something else.

I've heard that cache might be encrypted. I don't know whether or not that's true. If so, check out this link:

http://jaxov.com/2009/09/how-to-acce...-ubuntu-linux/

Last edited by paulsm4; 11-07-2010 at 09:12 PM.
 
Old 11-07-2010, 08:26 PM   #3
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in firefox they are in the firefox cache
~/.mozilla/( some Random Number).default/Cache
unless you set FF to clear it on shutting down

the same place it has been for a very long time
 
  


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