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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected] > > <mailto:[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]> > > > <mailto:[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>> > > > > <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]>> > > > > <mailto:[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? 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