1885951 - storage/archives bloats the profile folder?

Status: NEW

(Core :: Storage: StorageManager, defect, P3)

Description

[eight04]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Steps to reproduce:

I found that my profile folder is super large over 10GB:
https://i.imgur.com/DJ2Yj4C.png
Mostly taken by storage/archives/.

These folder looks like some daily backups starting from 2021:
https://i.imgur.com/Fk7D8KT.png

Including site data and indexed DB.

Actual results:

Is there any reasons to keep them in the profile? According to about:preferences#privacy, I only have 3GB site data:
https://i.imgur.com/U4yldyU.png

Expected results:

Use less space.

I wonder if this can be a reason why Firefox starts extremely slow:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1741865

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Startup and Profile System' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

Thanks for the report. We need to do something about old archives, but I can assure you that it's not a reason for slow startup.

Comment 3

[eight04]

Is it safe to delete the archives folder?

Comment 4

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

(In reply to eight04 from comment #3)

Is it safe to delete the archives folder?

Yes, it is.

Comment 5

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

The archival of unaccessed origins will be removed after bug 1671932, maybe sooner. So we plan to remove the archives folder completely as part of that.