[Mozilla Enterprise] What is 3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite

Timo Pietilä timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
Thu Oct 8 07:57:01 UTC 2020


So basically a cache of settings which can be deleted safely and it then 
rebuilds it after FF is started again.

I find these unnecessary cache files that can't be removed from UI and 
have nothing important in them rather annoying.

It feels like there is security/privacy issue too if you can dig any 
history of how FF has been used from those files.

Timo Pietilä

On 8.10.2020 10.17, Wes Kocher wrote:
> My understanding is that "Remote Settings" is the system Firefox is 
> using to synchronize and distribute preference changes and localized 
> messages between all of the various processes Firefox is using these 
> days as a multi-process browser.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 9:50 PM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi 
> <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     What are these remote settings? They don't seem to have any impact
>     on TB
>     or FF. Are these some kind of cached settings that for some reason are
>     in permanent storage?
> 
>     Timo Pietilä
> 
>     On 7.10.2020 17.52, Mike Kaply wrote:
>      > Unfortunately I don't have a better answer. That file is used for
>     our
>      > remote settings database which can be that big.
>      >
>      > Mike
>      >
>      > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:55 PM Timo Pietilä
>     <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
>      > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
>     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Unfortunately no such pref exist in TB or FF.
>      >
>      >     Also it isn't GB -size large, just 10+MB, but that is large
>     enough to
>      >     cause problems in roaming profiles.
>      >
>      >     I just changed all dom.indexed -prefs to false, maybe that helps
>      >     with it
>      >     getting large.
>      >
>      >     Maybe I can change permissions do that FF/TB can't write in that
>      >     directory just to see if that has any effect on FF/TB. If it
>     doesn't I
>      >     consider making that change university-wide.
>      >
>      >     Timo Pietilä
>      >
>      >     On 6.10.2020 18.50, Mike Kaply wrote:
>      >      > It's used for storing indexedDB data for internal pages.
>     There is
>      >     a bug
>      >      > for the growth:
>      >      >
>      >      > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145>
>      >     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145>>
>      >      > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145>
>      >     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145
>     <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517145>>>
>      >      >
>      >      > One of the comments says you can set:
>      >      >
>      >      >   "dom.indexedDB.dataThreshold" pref to "-1".
>      >      >
>      >      > To avoid it.
>      >      >
>      >      > Mike
>      >      >
>      >      > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 12:56 AM Timo Pietilä
>      >     <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
>     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>>
>      >      > <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
>     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
>      >     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi
>     <mailto:timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>>>> wrote:
>      >      >
>      >      >     What is 3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite (and other files
>      >     like that),
>      >      >     why it is in \storage\permanent\chrome in
>     firefox/thunderbird
>      >     profile
>      >      >     and why does it keep getting bigger? I can delete
>     everything
>      >     in that
>      >      >     folder and it does absolutely nothing in my browser,
>     it just
>      >     rebuilds
>      >      >     that folder when I restart FF/TB. When it is rebuild
>     it is at
>      >     first
>      >      >     very
>      >      >     small.
>      >      >
>      >      >     If that is not needed why is it "permanent"?
>      >      >
>      >      >     How can I get rid of it? It eats up a lot of roaming
>     space.
>      >      >
>      >      >     Timo Pietilä
>      >      >
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