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Practical Windows Forensics
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Practical Windows Forensics

by Ayman Shaaban, Konstantin Sapronov
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Firefox

Firefox is a widely-used browser that started in 2004 and has kept developing since. Starting from version 3, it started to use the SQLite format to store the usage artifacts except for the cache, and since this version the location of these artifacts is the same.

The location of the cache is at the following places:

  • Before Windows Vista: <SystemPartition>\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>
  • Since Windows Vista: <SystemPartition>\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile folder>

The rest of the artifacts are at the following locations:

  • Before Windows Vista: <SystemPartition>\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile ...
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ISBN: 9781783554096