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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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>> > > > > > > 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 > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Enterprise mailing list > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise> > > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise>> > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise> > > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise>> or send an email to > > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> with a subject of > "unsubscribe" > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Enterprise mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise> > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > <https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise> or send an email to > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> with a subject of > "unsubscribe" > > > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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