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Where has chrome://cache been moved to?

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Full question
https://superuser.com/questions/1316540/...

Accepted answer links:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromi...
[https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/iss...]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/iss...
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org...

Answer 2 links:
[811956, 809823]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromi...
[Cache viewer for Google Chrome]: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cac...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 51


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:

The discussion:




ANSWER 2

Score 20


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!