Firefox & tmpfs

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, January 11, 2011 14:08, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>> would this clear the browsing history, saved tabs, etc when the system
>> is rebooted?
>
> tmpfs is held in ram, so yes, it is wiped on a reboot ....

Actually, no.

The Firefox cache is stored in the browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
(see about:cache and about:config)
Browsing history, saved tabs, etc are saved in sqlite files in the Firefox
profile directory. These don't get wiped.

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Amedee