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Ask HN: How to view offline files Android browsers

2 points by barbarbar ↗ HN
Recently I found out that I have more than 2 Gb in storage of Brave browser. But I could only see the URL and size of storage. Fx almost 1 Gb for Mozilla.com. This was a surprise. But I can't find a way to view the different files on the android phone. Is there some way to give one self permission to fx view these directories?

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pwg
Not without 'rooting' the phone. The android system aggressively sandboxes each app into its own, isolated, part of the filesystem. So there is no 'official' way to see the app local files, other than by the app itself showing them to you unless you can root the phone.

But, you can go into the settings -> apps section, tap on the storage used area, and press "clear cache" to clear some of the data, and in Firefox go into settings -> "clear private data" and then choose what to clear and delete that and likely recover a fair amount of space.

barbarbar
I could recover 2.4 Gb - thank you. Still a bit puzzled about 1 Gb from Mozilla.com since I don't use that site very often. But now I will follow it a bit closer.