Does Windows Media Plugin for Firefox cache streaming videos, if so where?
Simply want to know whether or not files streamed via the Windows Media plugin are cached, and if so where?
Thanks.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.5
- HP Product Detection Plugin
- HP Active Check Plugin
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- HP Pit Plugin
- Google Update
- Amazon MP3 Downloader Plugin 1.0.17
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- 5.1.10411.0
- NPWLPG
- Office Live Update v1.5
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
More Information
Firefox 18.0.1
Windows 7
Streamed files are never cached.
Streaming works by passing the stream URL to the media player who then handles all media data.
The Windows Media Player sues the IE Temporary Internet folder cache, so you can check there.
Media files that are streamed aren't saved to the disk cache, so you won't find them on your computer.
Other media files may be in the Firefox disk cache or in the IE temporary files folder in case of MS plugins.