Firefox caching to NFS mounted home directories killing disk IO on file server

[john]

Hi all,

I'll answer part of my question by saying putting a firefox.js file in
/usr/lib/firefox-12/defaults/pref results in that file being honored by
thin clients, but not if firefox is being run as a local app. Since I am
running local apps, I guess my question is reduced to where/how does
firefox.js have to be to work with local apps under Ubuntu Lucid? Any
current howto's or pointers would be appreciated!

John


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:20 PM, john <lists.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I thought I'd resurect this old thread and ask is the current (as of May
> 2012) way to force global firefox preferences to create two files, one
> /etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js and one in the
> /usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ? That seems like a huge step backward
> from the days when you could control behave from a single firefox.js file
> located in /etc/firefox/prefs/.
>
> I assume for fat clients/local apps it would be
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/firefox/prefs/firefox.js and
> /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/lib/firefox-version/firefox.cfg ?
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed.
>
> John
>
>
> Am I misunderstanding how this is currently done. And does anybody
> understand why this keeps changing?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Emmanuel Le Normand <
> Emmanuel.Le-Normand at upmf-grenoble.fr> wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey,
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:10:40 -0500
>> Donaldson Jeffrey <jdonaldson at ncs.k12.de.us> wrote:
>>
>> > Good Morning,
>> ------------------
>> > I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in
>> > /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1. If I launch firefox, I get an error that it
>> > couldn't read the configuration file. So I downloaded the mozilla 13
>> > byteshift perl script and ran it on my cfg file. Then Firefox
>> > launches successfully, only problem is that it doesn't seem to be
>> > pulling or locking any of the preferences I set in the file (most
>> > importantly, browser.cache.parent_directory). Can anyone tell me what
>> > I'm doing wrong? Or is there a better way to set Firefox to cache
>> > locally for all users?
>>
>> Why don't you desactivate this firefox's option
>> "browser.cache.disk.enable" ? Cached web pages with thin client it isnt
>> interresting, no ?
>>
>> And I googled "browser.cache.parent_directory", and the good option is
>> "browser.cache.disk.parent_directory".
>>
>> Best regard
>> Manu
>>
>> PS: Sorry for my bad English...
>>
>>
>>
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