641290 - Increase in size of places.sqlite

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[jeff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Basically if you change/add a site to your bookmarks toolbar the /root/.mozilla/firefox/kvmwarlf.default/places.sqlite <--- places.sqlite gets blown-up to 10MB in size, where as the previous Firefox 3-4b was only around 188kb, but the final in /root/.mozilla/firefox/kvmwarlf.default/places.sqlite is 10MB.
I then took an older beta4Firefox and tried it and the result was 188kb not 10MB like the latest firefox 4.0 final does, so this is a new bug only related to firefox4 final
Jeff


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

This was by design. See bug 581606.

Comment 2

[jeff]

No it was not, Are you telling me that places.sqlite went from 188kb to 10MB in file size from Firefox 4 beta to Firefox Final, if so what genius figures people have an extra 10MB of memory to toss out the door for absolutely nothing.
Jeff

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Discussion about this can be found here:
https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/browse_thread/thread/8970853c3e30b321#

This behavior is intentional.

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Also, I would HIGHLY recommend you not run the browser as root! That's a bad idea -- for any app -- for innumerable reasons.

Comment 5

[jeff]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Also, I would HIGHLY recommend you not run the browser as root! That's a bad
> idea -- for any app -- for innumerable reasons.

With traditional Linux distro's that is true, not with Puppy Linux, it runs 100% in ram, and the files system is squashed. Its been tested time and time again to be 100% secure.
Jeff