870146 - webapp profiles aren't being deleted

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect, P2)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I noticed my nightly uses a lot of space recently. I'm fairly sure its due to a whole bunch of un-used webapp profiles lying around. We have code to delete them:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/GeckoAppShell.java#711

is it not running for some reason?

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

That's potentially bad. We're using up space unintentionally.

Obviously this will become a bigger problem with packaged apps, given that a lot of them can be large in size (> 1 MB).

I'll start with P2 here given that there's some analysis needed here before concluding it's a P1 by figuring out the root cause behind this.

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: Patch

So we we're cleaning up, but not deleting these. This is based on the patch for bug 895709, which fixed our delete code to work on non-empty directories.

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I landed a slightly different version of this in bug 896092