Apple safari

Apple Safari is the default web browser included with Mac OS X.

Locations

The Safari browser uses different locations to store different kind of information.

The user directory:

On MacOS-X

/Users/$USER/Library/Safari/

On Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\

On Windows 7

C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Safari\

The cache directory:

On MacOS-X

/Users/$USER/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/

On Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari\

On Windows 7

C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Apple Computer\Safari\

The browser history is stored in a binary plist file named History.plist in the user directory.

For each website, the program records the URL visited, the date and time of the last visit, and the number of times the site has been visited.

The date and time values are stored as a floating point value containing the number of seconds since Jan 1, 2001 00:00:00 UTC.

The downloads history is stored in a plist file named Downloads.plist in the user directory.

The browser last session information is stored in a plist file named LastSession.plist in the user directory.

The Safari cache is stored in Cache.db in the cache directory.