On 6/19/2014 7:21 PM, Larry S. wrote: > Doing a profile back-up, and noticed that the folder has become quite a > bit larger than in the past. Looking into it, I see three large files > that stand out. These are: > -- places.sqlite > -- webappsstore.sqlite > -- netpredictions.sqlite (the largest by far, more than half the total). > > "Places" sounds familiar, but the other two don't, especially > "netpredictions". > > Can anyone tell me what these are, and, in particular, why the last one > is so darn large? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Larry S. >
These are all databases. places.sqlite contains your bookmarks and browser history. This replaced bookmarks.htm quite a few SeaMonkey versions ago. webappsstore.sqlite is apparently used to implement an HTML5 feature called "local storage", a form of persistent storage available to Web-based applications. This was implemented 6-7 years ago. See bug #335540 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335540> and bug #422526 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422526>. netpredictions.sqlite is used in a scheme to predict what domains you might request next so that a prefetch to a domain-name server (DNS) can resolve in advance the domain to its IP address. This is supposed to be controlled by the preference variable network.seer.enabled, which has the default value "false" (disabled) in SeaMonkey. It appears that even with network.seer.enabled set to "false", however, the netpredictions.sqlite database is still created. See bug #881804 at <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=881804>, possibly implemented in SeaMonkey 2.24. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam, flames, and trolling from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
