Hi, Basically, what I'm looking to do is cache historical data locally from a website that only shows data for the past 10/15 days so that I don't have to keep transferring everything over to a spreadsheet manually. I'm quite conscious of the volume of data this will end up storing, however as I have read about (over)using GM_log to store into about:config can potentially be a problem with slowing down the whole of Firefox.
Which brings me to my question: do you have had much experience with storing large amounts of data? If so, which methods did you use? I've been thinking about it recently and I can think of a few options:: [quote from forum post] * Store it using GM_log, in the Firefox preferences -> Problem = For those with many referrals, this causes a LOT of extra data being stored. The problem with this is that as this is the same place that Firefox itself stores its own preferences, this has the potential to slow down Firefox regardless of which site you are viewing. * Store it using HTML5 storage -> This shouldn't slow things down so much (I *think*) BUT only the latest browsers support it and if anybody clears their browser history / temp files (I'm not sure of the exact details)without backing it up / exporting it, then the stored data gets wiped too * Store it in cookies -> ehhh, *no*! * Store it in the "cloud" -> This creates a single point of failure (something that I do not approve of) so anything like this would need to be more along the lines of 'backing up to the cloud' combined with local storage so that you always have access to your own data regardless of my status... * Turn this into an addon rather than a script -> This idea just came to mind while typing but perhaps if this were to be a firefox addon rather than a greasemonkey script then maybe more options will present themselves, but I haven't played around with addons much so don't know huge amounts about it.. I do know that there exists a greasemonkey script to firefox addon convertor but I don't know if it works for this script, something that I need to look into I expect.. [/quote] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
