Firefox & tmpfs

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

On 11/01/2011 23:37, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 11 Jan 2011, at 3:39pm, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>
>> On Tue, January 11, 2011 14:08, Chris Jones wrote:
>>>> would this clear the browsing history, saved tabs, etc when the system
>>>> is rebooted?
>>> tmpfs is held in ram, so yes, it is wiped on a reboot ....
>> Actually, no.
>>
>> The Firefox cache is stored in the browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
>> (see about:cache and about:config)
>> Browsing history, saved tabs, etc are saved in sqlite files in the Firefox
>> profile directory. These don't get wiped.
> I was assuming the user would sym link their entire ~/.firefox directory to tmpfs, in which case everything would go on a reboot. Of course, if they only sym link the cache, then only that is lost. 
You would lose the whole firefox configuration and settings. Maybe OK
for a kiosk... but not good if you want SOME persistance of some
settings... like bookmarks...

Gilles.