In <news:[email protected]>, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/20/2014 08:00 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > > Rob schrieb: > >> The reason why some of the .sqlite files are so darn large is > >> partly the silly pre-allocation that is done on them. > > > > "Silly" is in the eye of the beholder. The preallocation makes > > write access to the DB much faster. It's a tradeoff. The vast > > majority of people have local profiles on their computer and their > > disk space is huge and cheap, while their time probably isn't. > > Right... 41.8Mib worth - even with prefetch off? That's almost 0.04% of my laptop's HDD capacity. I guess it might annoy me if my profile wasn't local. > 43810816 Jun 12 10:45 netpredictions.sqlite > > And of course there is the issue of thinking that you've cleared all > of your private data (Tools|Clear Private Data) and find that you can > just open netpredictions and find hak5.org & my last visit was: > $ date --date='@1399332866.664296' > Mon May 5 16:34:26 PDT 2014 > > Or no way to effectively clear site preferences: > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713848> > Add Site Preferences option to Clear Private Data (clear stored domain > settings) I'd like to see that stuff fixed, too. In the meantime, people who are worried the Bad Guys might drop by and read their databases should probably only use Private Browsing mode. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
