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In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?

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Mar 15, 202655273 views
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Problem

I like to keep videos because I like buffering them and then playing them back-to-back in my media player, I want to be able to stop/restart my browser without losing all the buffered video, and Flash frequently crashes and gives me the gray boxes. For many sites with Flash video (including Youtube…

Error Output

$ ls -lt .cache/google-chrome/Cache/ | head
total 261492
-rw------- 1 yang yang 16621568 2010-12-05 03:41 data_1
-rw------- 1 yang yang   966656 2010…

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Fix for: In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?

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I observed that the recent Flash plugins do store files in /tmp, but they use a trick of removing them and keeping a filehandle open to keep them alive. This means they are still kept on the drive (as long as the filehandle is opened by flash plugin…

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