In the past it was possible to browse the browser cache by visiting chrome://cache/ but it seems to have been (re)moved?
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2Not an answer to your question, but NirSoft ChromeCacheView and ImageCacheView may be of interest.– AnaksunamanApr 24, 2018 at 10:26
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5Unfortunately those only work on Windows.– CarlosApr 24, 2018 at 22:09
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Worked for me, but then I updated to latest version to be sure, and poof, its gone.– mxmissileMay 3, 2018 at 20:13
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It was removed on purpose and it won't be coming back.
Both chrome://cache and chrome://view-http-cache have been removed starting chrome 66. They work in version 65.
Workaround
You can check the chrome://chrome-urls/ for complete list of internal Chrome URLs.
The only workaround that comes into my mind is to use menu/more tools/developer tools and having a Network tab selected.
The reason why it was removed is this bug:
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/6ebc11f6f6d112e4cca5251d4c0203e18cd79adc
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=811956
The discussion:
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3Well that sucks. :( Is there a workaround for a user loading a page while offline? Aug 14, 2019 at 20:25
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6The links provided do not explain in any way why this was removed. It seems to be a very useful feature, removed for no reason.– kruboSep 28, 2019 at 21:34
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8@tukan I read that one. Their consensus seems to be that they themselves rarely use it, and that most people who need it can use "cachetool" instead, which isn't further explained. When I saw "the reason why it was removed is this bug" in this answer I was expecting to read about a security issue or something, not just that the developers don't think it's useful.– kruboSep 29, 2019 at 13:53
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1can you or someone else please elaborate on the work around? May 9, 2020 at 7:31
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1@tukan The developers do "decide what will be in the application" in order to meet the users' needs. Here it's clearly NOT the case, they're against the users' needs.– maxxymeFeb 6, 2021 at 17:34
It hasn't been moved, it's been removed! Because of the Bug: 811956, 809823
However the cache still exists and is at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1\Cache.
You can view/list your cache using a Cache viewer for Google Chrome!
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6On macos the path seems to be
~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application\ CacheDec 3, 2018 at 12:06 -
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