Internet caches
Cocktail supports a wide variety of internet browsers. But since Safari is the only web browser shipping with Mac OS X,
Safari is the only browser enabled in Cocktail by default. If nothing else is selected the following items will be erased
when clearing internet caches:
- Cookies
A small pieces of information stored by the web browsers in a designated file on the computer.
- Download list
A list of the recently downloaded files.
- Form values
Information saved and used by web browsers to automatically complete web forms. Camino and Opera lacks this function.
- History
List of the recently visited websites.
- Page icons
Icons specified by the websites and displayed in the address box and next to bookmarks and addresses in the History menu.
The different caches can be found at the following locations:
Internet caches
- Safari
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/
~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage/
/private/var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
- Camino
~/Library/Caches/Camino/Cache/
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Camino/
- Chrome
~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache/
~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Media Cache/
- Firefox
~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/Cache
~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/OfflineCache
~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/startupCache
- Flock
~/Library/Caches/Flock/Profiles/*.default/Cache
~/Library/Caches/Flock/Profiles/*.default/OfflineCache
~/Library/Caches/Flock/User Data/Default/Cache/
- OmniWeb
~/Library/Caches/OmniWeb/
~/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5/WebKitCache/
- Opera
~/Library/Caches/Opera/Cache/
~/Library/Caches/Opera/CacheLock
~/Library/Caches/Opera/CacheOp/Cache/
~/Library/Caches/Opera/opcache/
~/Library/Caches/Opera/Temp/
Cookies
- Safari ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.plist
- Camino
~/Library/Application Support/Camino/cookies.txt
~/Library/Application Support/Camino/cookies.sqlite
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/Cookies
- Chrome ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies
- Firefox
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/cookies.txt
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/cookies.sqlite
- Flock
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/cookies.txt
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/cookies.sqlite
- OmniWeb ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Cookies.xml
- Opera ~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/cookies4.dat
~/Library/Opera/cookies4.dat
Download list
- Safari ~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist
- Camino ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/downloads.plist
- Chrome Download list is stored in the history files
- Firefox
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/downloads.rdf
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/downloads.sqlite
- Flock
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/downloads.rdf
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/downloads.sqlite
- OmniWeb Deletes OWPersistentDownloadedFileFossils key from ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist file
- Opera ~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/download.dat
~/Library/Opera/download.dat
Form values
- Safari ~/Library/Safari/Form Values
- Chrome ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data
- Firefox
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/formhistory.dat
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/formhistory.sqlite
- Flock
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/formhistory.dat
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/formhistory.sqlite
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/Web Data
- OmniWeb Deletes OWFormAutoFillSets key from ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist file
History
- Safari
~/Library/Safari/History.plist
~/Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History
- Camino ~/Library/Application Support/Camino/history.dat
~/Library/Application Support/Camino/places.sqlite
- Chrome
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Archived History
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History Index
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Visited Links
- Firefox ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/history.dat
- Flock
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/Profiles/*.default/history.dat
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/Archived History
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/History
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/History Index
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/Visited Links
- OmniWeb ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/History
- Opera
~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/Opera Direct History
~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/Opera Global History
~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/global_history.dat
~/Library/Opera/global_history.dat
Page icons
- Safari ~/Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db
- Camino ~/Library/Caches/Camino/IconCache/
- Chrome
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Thumbnails
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
- Flock
~/Library/Application Support/Flock/User Data/Default/Thumbnails
- OmniWeb
~/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5/Page Icons/
~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Icons/
- Opera
~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/Icons/
~/Library/Caches/Opera/icons/
Other options
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Adobe Flash Player caches
~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player/
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Adobe Flash Player cookies
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/
~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/'Flash Player'/macromedia.com/support/