Where do browsers save cookies and data?

What is the default location for the Firefox or Chromium web browser to store data?

Also, where are the temporary data and cookies, along with user profiles, stored?

Solution 1:

Chromium cache is kept under ~/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache.

Firefox cache is kept under ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache.

You can navigate to those using Nautilus and selecting View > Show Hidden Files (or press Ctrl+H on a nautilus window).

The user's profile for Firefox is kept under ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/. It contains cache, addons, user settings, etc.

The user's profile for Chromium is kept under ~/.cache/chromium/Default, also contains all the files related to the user: cache, settings, addons, etc.

Solution 2:

I think this information about the location of cookies is out of date. In Ubuntu 16.04 using Mozilla 50.1.0 the cookies are not stored in -

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/Cache

In fact this Cache folder does not exist. The cookies are stored in an SQLite database file called cookies.sqlite. So the correct path name is -

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxx.default/cookies.sqlite

Just to make it a bit more complicated you have to use an SQLite database browser to look at them. I hope this helps.

Solution 3:

Hi you can browse through your /home/$your-username folder, in mine I have it as /home/home

Generally speaking, people use ~/ as a shortcut for /home/$your-username

so for Mozilla it will be under ~/.mozilla.

for Chromium it will be under ~/.cache/chromium.

you can use nautilus file manager to browse through those directories.