Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-13 Thread Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports
On 13/11/20 07:58, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 11/12/20 9:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: Never use file locking on NFS.  Period.  One day it *will* bite you, due to some yet-to-be-discovered bug.  In the meantime, feel free to ignore the advice of those who have been there before... Thanks for

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/12/20 9:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: Never use file locking on NFS.  Period.  One day it *will* bite you, due to some yet-to-be-discovered bug.  In the meantime, feel free to ignore the advice of those who have been there before... Thanks for the advice. What protocol do you suggest,

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other items. You should never store these on NFS. Really? It has worked properly for years; it's only been broken for some months. Besides history works perfectly. Wouldn't any corruption

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/11/20 8:05 PM, Dimitry Andric wrote: Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other items. You should never store these on NFS. Really? It has worked properly for years; it's only been broken for some months. Besides history works perfectly. Wouldn't any corruption

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-11 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 11 Nov 2020, at 18:31, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > Since some months I've been experiencing data loss with Firefox. > I'm currently running Firefox-esr-78.4.1 on FreeBSD 12.2/amd64. > > I guess this is related to cookies, since it loses saved form data and I keep > having to login again on

FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Since some months I've been experiencing data loss with Firefox. I'm currently running Firefox-esr-78.4.1 on FreeBSD 12.2/amd64. I guess this is related to cookies, since it loses saved form data and I keep having to login again on sites where I had logon and never logout, accept