My friend has a Samsung Galaxy S2 where Firefox is using so much storage space
that she can no longer apply security updates to any apps. It seems like Firefox
should never be getting into a state where this can happen, period.
After trying to clear some memory (without losing things like saved passwords)
the Application Manager is showing:
Storage
Total 846MB
Application 2.80MB
USB storage app 27.47MB
Data 816MB
SD card 0.00B
Specifically, we cleared:
Browsing & download history
Downloaded files
Cache
Offline web site data
Site settings
We did not clear:
Form & search history
Cookies & active logins
Saved passwords
We also cleared 7 pending crash reports from about:crashes.
Using Margaret Leibovic's Copy Profile extension* to copy the Firefox profile to
the SD card and it seems the profile is only 30 MB in size.
In #mobile it was suggested that we use adb to look at
/data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files, but on this phone (after enabling USB
debugging, obviously) we just get:
$ adb shell ls /data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/files
opendir failed, Permission denied
adb shell does not seem to have su or sudo, and trying to chmod gives:
$ chmod 777 data
Unable to chmod data: Operation not permitted
Does anyone have any ideas on how we can make further progress here?
Having users get into the situation where they have to use the Application
Manager to clear space - and lose their profile! - is really bad, so I'd like to
figure out what's going on.
Jonathan
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/copy-profile/
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