[Bug 139366] 2.0.0.6 leaving HUGE amounts of log files

[StephanBeal]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

Hiya!

Since my upgrade to FF 2.0.0.6, i am seeing that FF leaves a HUGE amount
of log files laying around. i came across the problem while trying to
figure out why my backups had suddenly jumped 5x in size. Here's an
example:

stephan at owl:~/.mozilla/firefox/tl3y65hs.default$ du -sh .
11G     .

stephan at owl:~/.mozilla/firefox/tl3y65hs.default/browserstate-logs$ l
total 10815844
drwx------ 2 stephan users       4096 2007-09-12 16:52 .
drwx------ 8 stephan users       4096 2007-09-13 14:02 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users 2406204836 2007-08-26 18:53 log-20070825-185357-638.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users 2407316396 2007-08-27 18:54 log-20070826-185359-417.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users  164477814 2007-09-11 16:52 log-20070910-165159-466.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users 2475002631 2007-09-12 16:52 log-20070911-165200-321.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephan users 3611567400 2007-09-13 14:12 log-20070912-165200-347.txt

(The time gap between Aug 27 and Sept 11 was caused by me being away on
vacation.)

Unfortunately, i deleted the logs and therefore do not have a sample to
paste here, but a quick glance through them revealed nothing terribly
interesting. It seemed to mostly be debug/info information, and not
critical/error info.

This behaviour has not shown up (for me) on any previous version of FF,
nor am i currently using any plugins which i did not also use in FF
2.0.0.5.

If there's a configuration option i can toggle to disable the generation
of these logs, i would love to find out what it is. :)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 13 14:18:44 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux owl 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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2.0.0.6 leaving HUGE amounts of log files
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