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# Internet

Cocktail supports a wide variety of internet browsers. But since Safari is the only web browser shipping with 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. 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/Caches/com.apple.Safari/fsCachedData
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache
  ~/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Media Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage
- Firefox
  ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/Cache
  ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/OfflineCache
  ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/startupCache
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5/WebKitCache
  ~/Library/Caches/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb6/WebKitCache
- Opera
  ~/Library/Caches/com.operasoftware.Opera/Cache
  ~/Library/Caches/com.operasoftware.Opera/Media Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/GPUCache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Local Storage
  ~/Library/Caches/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Cache
  ~/Library/Caches/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Media Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/GPUCache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Local Storage

Cookies

- Safari
  ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
  ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cookies-journal
- Firefox
  ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/cookies.sqlite
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Cookies.xml
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 6/Cookies.xml
- Opera
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Cookies
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Cookies-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Cookies
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Cookies-journal

Download list

- Safari
  ~/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History
- Firefox
  Not supported.
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb6.plist
- Opera
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/History
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/History

Form values

- Safari
  ~/Library/Safari/Form Values
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Web Data-journal
- Firefox
  ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/formhistory.sqlite
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5.plist
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.omnigroup.OmniWeb6.plist
- Opera
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Web Datat
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Web Data-journalt
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Web Datat
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Web Data-journal

History

- Safari
  ~/Library/Safari/History.db
  ~/Library/Safari/History.db-wal
  ~/Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk
  ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/History Provider Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Top Sites
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Top Sites-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Visited Links
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Visited Links-journal
- Firefox
  Not supported.
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/History.plist
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/HistoryIndex.ox
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/HistoryIndex.ox.log
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 6/History.plist
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 6/HistoryIndex.ox
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 6/HistoryIndex.ox.log
- Opera
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/History
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/History-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/History Provider Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Visited Links
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Visited Links-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/History
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/History-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/History Provider Cache
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Visited Links
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Visited Links-journal

Page icons

- Safari
  ~/Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db
- Chrome
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Favicons-journal
- Firefox
  Not supported.
- OmniWeb
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 5/Icons
  ~/Library/Application Support/OmniWeb 6/Icons
- Opera
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Favicons
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.Opera/Favicons-journal
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Favicons
  ~/Library/Application Support/com.operasoftware.OperaNext/Favicons-journal

Other options

- Adobe Flash Player caches
  ~/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player/
- Adobe Flash Player cookies
  ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/
  ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/
- Mail downloads
  ~/Library/Mail Downloads/
  ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/
  When you receive attachments to e-mail messages in Apple's Mail, the files are stored with your messages at first. But if you double-click an attachment to view it, Mail stores a copy in ~/Library/Mail Downloads and/or ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads folder. You may have dozens of files here occupying a huge amount of space. You can generally delete these without worry. If you still have the original messages, the attachments are part of those messages.
- Quarantine Events database
  The Quarantine Events database contains URLs of downloaded files, mail addresses and subjects for saved attachments (regardless of the application they came from) along with a few other bits of information.
- iCloud caches
  ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit
  ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.bird
  ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iCloudHelper
  ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.icloud.fmfd
- DNS cache
  Flushes DNS (mDNSResponder) cache. Flushing the DNS cache on your computer is something that can prove useful when trying to speed up DNS resolution for a newly added or modified domain in your account. It will remove the local cache from your system and allow you to grab the most recent cache that your ISP has.

Online information

- Cache by Wikipedia.