Firefox & tmpfs

[Chris Jones]

On 11 Jan 2011, at 3:39pm, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:

> 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.

I was assuming the user would sym link their entire ~/.firefox directory to tmpfs, in which case everything would go on a reboot. Of course, if they only sym link the cache, then only that is lost.