[Mozilla Enterprise] What is 3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.sqlite
Mike Kaply
mkaply at mozilla.com
Fri Oct 9 15:49:25 UTC 2020
It might be worth opening a bug with this suggestion (that this file not be
in roaming)
Mike
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 12:07 AM Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila at helsinki.fi>
wrote:
> Is there a reason why it is in roaming -part of the user profile?
>
> Nevermind, most of things in FF and TB profiles are things that don't
> need to be in roaming. They are there for old habit of having absolute
> minimum support for windows which is now hard to change without breaking
> downward compatibility I guess.
>
> It is just annoying to see that whenever there is a roaming full top two
> things that fill it are always Firefox and Thunderbird.
>
> Maybe UE-V will save us from that nightmare.
>
> Timo Pietilä
>
> On 8.10.2020 20.28, Mike Kaply wrote:
> > 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/
> > <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
> > <mailto: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>
> > > <mailto: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>>
> > > > <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:
> > > >
> > > > 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>>>
> > > > >
> > <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>>>
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> > <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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