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](https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html) and [ImageCacheView](http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/image_cache_viewer.html) may be of interest. – Anaksunaman Apr 24 '18 at 10:26
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5Unfortunately those only work on Windows. – Carlos Apr 24 '18 at 22:09
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Worked for me, but then I updated to latest version to be sure, and poof, its gone. – mxmissile May 03 '18 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? – lowcrawler Aug 14 '19 at 20:25
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@lowcrawler not I know of. I suppose, Google wants you to be always connected. – tukan Aug 15 '19 at 03:45
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@tucan wasn't it to mainstream [service workers usage](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorker)? – Jakub Strebeyko Aug 27 '19 at 07:12
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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. – krubo Sep 28 '19 at 21:34
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@krubo did you actually read the links? If you would do so there you find a discussion e.g. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/net-dev/YNct7Nk6bd8/ODeGPq6KAAAJ – tukan Sep 29 '19 at 06:43
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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. – krubo Sep 29 '19 at 13:53
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@krubo Who decides what will be in the application? The developers. In their eye an unused feature is a security risk because there maybe bugs hidden as the code is frequently used - a bug. – tukan Sep 29 '19 at 17:56
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1can you or someone else please elaborate on the work around? – Chagai Friedlander May 09 '20 at 07:31
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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. – maxxyme Feb 06 '21 at 17:34
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@maxxyme Actually not, the developers listen to the company that pays them - most of the google? If you have any complain try it there, I don't think they will listen. The ordinary users do not need this - the web and other kind of developers do. – tukan Feb 06 '21 at 18:45
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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\ Cache` – dǝɥɔS ʇoıןןƎ Dec 03 '18 at 12:06
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