[Mozilla Enterprise] What is 3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite
Mike Kaply
mkaply at mozilla.com
Thu Oct 8 17:28:59 UTC 2020
Firefox ships with default settings and then queries updates to those
settings via RemoteSettings.
There's some developer info here -
https://remote-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
But not a lot user facing.
The reason removing it works is because we ship defaults.
Mike
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 2:57 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
wrote:
> 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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