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I visited a webpage but now the webpage has been removed or the server is down. I assume that Chrome has cached a version of this webpage. If so, how can I view this webpage?

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Type chrome://cache in the address bar to get a list of resources cached by Chrome.

Unfortunately, clicking on a resource shows a HEX+ASCII preview of its contents. In cases when the content is gzipped (archived) this preview cannot be read, unless processed with a tool that can decompress it.

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Which tool could be used here? – Frank Presencia Fandos Oct 11 '12 at 2:43
I don't know if such a tool exists, but theoretically it could be possible to make one, since the binary contents of the file can be accessed (in a strange format, it's true) – w0lf Oct 11 '12 at 7:49
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after a Google search I found this article: frozax.com/blog/2011/05/… I haven't tried it, but looks promising. – w0lf Oct 11 '12 at 7:50
@FrankPresenciaFandos: I created a tool that works online, see my answer below. – Senseful Mar 29 at 19:33
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You can use the online free tool I created: Google Chrome Cache Viewer. It's actually fairly easy to view the cache with this, even if the contents are zipped.

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+1 Great tool! I have one suggestion: sice you already have a JavaScript version of the tool, I guess you could easily turn it into a Chrome Extension to make it even more convenient to use – w0lf Mar 29 at 20:41
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Depending on the site, and what it is, Google it self should have a cached version of it, if thier Crawler has been on it, that is.

Just try to google the site, and see if you can find it there, if you find it, hoovering the mouse over the name, a arrow should become visible on the right. Clicking on it will bring up a cached version of the website, and a link to the cached version.

Regards,

Patrick Jørgensen

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