From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.daniels...@gmail.com> [140218 15:56]
On 18/02/14 14:14, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
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> Firefox is also a greedy monster on FreeBSD, both in memory & ~/.mozilla
Sorry; slightly off-topic..
With regards to disk space: Just in case anyone missed it; I'm
assuming most of you know this already..
I backup my firefox profile directory during daily maintenance
("clear cache on exit" is a must), and I noticed a few firefox versions
back that those backups suddenly started growing to obscene proportions.
Turned out firefox had started saving "thumbnails" of pages I have
visited. I would have thought that it would save at most nine thumbnails
(considering that it shows nine tiles for commonly visited pages), but I
soon realized that it saved _a lot_ of thumbnails, for many different
sites, and happily stored them in the profile directory. Nice, large,
24-bit PNG's.
I disabled the feature completely, and cleaned up the already
existing thumbnails, and now I can backup my browser profile again.
It obviously won't stop the profile from growing, but to me the rate
of growth has been acceptable without the thumbnails.
/Jan
In combination with a proxy on a local server and firefox on a client you dont
have to deal with this mess.
I have squid running on the server, firefox settings are 0 MB for swap
and its rather quick. Also it doesnt bother the slowish laptop harddisk.
If you have the environment for it, give it a try..
herb langhans
