[ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

[Peter Smout]

On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout <smoutpete at gmail.com
> <mailto:smoutpete at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread "My
>     thoughts confirmed", and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in
>     stores it's temp files.
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>     I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video
>     (or part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or
>     /home/pete/.adobe
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>     Does anyone know where it downloads it's cache to?
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>     Or is there a CLI way of following the data (the tail command looks
>     promising but I don't know what to tail!)
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> I seem to recall that swf files are cached in their browser config
> directory but also that they're compiled to bytecode so you might not be
> able to identify them.
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> The best command tool to start with would be lsof, which should show you
> open files. I have a feeling that you might find that a plugin library
> is causing the problem but that it runs inside the browser so isn't
> visible to the OS.
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Thanks I'll look in to it ;)

Pete S