How to view previous version of a page
I'm wondering if it's possible to view a particular page in the cache.
Earlier today I attempted to make a hotel booking and when I clicked on "purchase" the site reported a problem so I phoned the hotel and made the booking by phone instead.
However, I then received two confirmations - the first purchase went through despite saying it hadn't, then I was charged a second time for the booking made by phone.
Now they are saying these are non-refundable bookings and are being difficult about refunding the more expensive, rather than cheaper, booking.
Is there a way to access the page when it showed the error? I have clicked on the back button but only get a message saying the session has timed out. I have also typed about:cache in the url bar but can't see what I'm after there.
Does anyone have any suggestions to view this error page?
Thanks in advance for advice, Jo
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Hello boppyqt and thanks for contacting us,
Yes. There's a way to list all the cache entries on Firefox. But there's a problem. It will list ALL of them. They may be thousands, your computer might get busy for long time.
Anyway, on your address bar type about:cache. On "Disk cache device" click over List cache entries. You will see ALL of them. Find the one pertaining to the error page by finding the latest ones.
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Thanks for replying. Unfortunately I can't find anything useful there - just lots of "session has expired, please refresh" pages and other cache entry information pages full of lines of code.
Also it's not sorted by date, entries are all jumbled up so it's not an easy task.
For some reason I had the belief that I could see images of each page viewed in my cache. I've looked in this directory: C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\m0qryny4.default\Cache\2\CA and the files in the folders there are not viewable.
Cheers Jo
Then I'm sorry, there's no other way unless you saved the page.
You can't revisit a page to see an older version from the cache once it has been revisited being online and/or if the link isn't working in File > Offline mode.
It is also possible that website use a no-store or no-cache directive causing Firefox not to store that page.
With a secure https connection chances are even less.