Remove temporary internet files in Safari 10.4 and Firefox on MAC OS – delete temp files in mac

It is always confusing where these temporary files are stored on MAC OS, these temporary files are having cookie related information, flash files and other downloaded files which may consume your hard disk space and it can also slow down your computer. It is also a good practice to delete the temporary internet files once in a for security reasons too. There are many free utilities available on internet which will solve this problem , but it is always good to know what is happening behind the screen when you run these utilities.

EasyFind and Spotlight are two good utilities which can be used to remove your temporary internet files. If you prefer to do this manually then you should find these folders and delete it yourselves.

Temporary files in Safari 10.4

/Users/[your account name]/Library/Caches/Safari

Temporary files in Mozila Firefox

/Users/[your account name]/Library/Caches/Firefox/Profiles/[random characters].default/Cache

You don’t see the exact real name of files for security reasons, file names may be scrambled or random.

Few other utilities which you can depend to find and remove temp files are

Cache out X

Currently supported browsers
Safari 4.0.2
Firefox 3.5.1
Camino 1.6.8
Flock 1.2.6
Shiira 2.2
Opera 9.52.4916
OmniWeb 5.9.2

Tags: mac, mac os X, mozila firefox