On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 10:21:42 (-0500), John Hasler wrote:
> rhkramer writes:
> > When I have as few as 10 to 15 tabs open on the Firefox on my Jessie
> > system, Firefox crashes (I mentioned in a previous post in this thread
> > having a thousand or more tabs "open" in Firefox on Wheezy with
> > minimal problems -- yes occasional crashes (maybe once every 2 to 4
> > weeks?), but I couldn't come near that on Jessie, and I expect the
> > same problem on Buster.
>
> What Firefox version? I used to see frequent Firefox crashes
> (apparently memory leaks: my system is always up) but that stopped a few
> years ago (though the irritation of that has been replaced by the
> irritation of being required to create a new profile every time I
> upgrade Firefox).
What sort of upgrade? Just the regular security fixes (which seem to
be quite frequent recently), or point-releases, or what?
And what parts of your profile do you lose? Bookmarks, cookies (like
the ones you might want to keep for logins) or what?
It's just that I've been using the same two profiles (two users) for
years. I've copied them from machine to machine as my principal
workstation has changed, and I copy them to other machines so that
I don't have to find lots of websites I use fairly regularly. (They
gradually diverge, of course, from the canonical copy on my principal
workstation.)
Some of the files in the profiles are pretty ancient and obviously
were converted into other formats but not cleaned up. I mean, what
do these do?
1592146 Jul 8 2013 urlclassifier.pset
54059008 Jul 8 2013 urlclassifier3.sqlite
7099 Feb 25 2013 sessionstore-2.js
101823 Jan 14 2013 xpti.dat
151170 Jan 14 2013 compreg.dat
1024 May 7 2012 old-pluginreg.dat
29034 Apr 18 2012 sessionstore-1.js
16384 Aug 22 2011 secmod.db
Cheers,
David.
