Firefox and space consuming profiles
Dear list,
we decided to use Firefox as default web browser, and
generally, I am fine with this.
Checking our home0 partition for space consumers, I encountered these
bug of Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359145
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383031
http://ychittaranjan.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/urlclassifier3sqlite-woes-on-firefox-3/
For every user, a sqlite database with phising urls is stored, and this is updated
daily, growing to some 30MB per user.
For now, I have a stupid script that frees 7 GB (10%) on our tjener [1].
For the future we'll need
- a firefox/iceweasel version fit for large sites with >>100 users.
- possibly a mechanism that uses the urlclassifier2.sqlite info in squid.
Also, mind the autopac issue [2].
Regards
Ralf
1. Like this:
df -h |grep home0
cd /skole/tjener/home0
rm -rf */profile/Anwendungsdaten/Opera/Opera/profile/cache4
rm -rf */.local/share/Trash/*
rm -rf */.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache/*
rm -rf */profile/Anwendungsdaten/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/Cache*
rm -f */profile/Anwendungsdaten/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/urlclassifier2.sqlite
rm -f */profile/Anwendungsdaten/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/googlesafebrowsing.db
rm -rf */profile/Anwendungsdaten/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/GoogleToolbarData
df -h |grep home0
2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235853
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