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Sikeen
lemmy.ml

yeah, the firefox account. it doesn't save everything sadly:( not even close.

you could also backup the data directly, you can find what account you're using and where to find it in about:account

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taladar
sh.itjust.works

Just keep your home directory on a separate partition and then keep it when you distro hop.

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JubilantJaguarreply
lemmy.world

The "just" is doing a lot of work here. This stuff really needs to be easier for ordinary users.

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taladarreply
sh.itjust.works

Compared to all the gotchas with sync in several directions learning and setting up partitioning is literally super-easy.

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JubilantJaguarreply
lemmy.world

OK if that's your experience, but sounds like you may not be an average user. Partitioning is low-level stuff where you're one mistake away from losing everything. Personally I have used many sync solutions but partitioning is something I leave firmly to the OS.

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JubilantJaguar
lemmy.world

Put the changes in a user.js file in your Firefox profile directory (the same one that probably already has prefs.js and logins.js).

Use this format (same as about:config):

user_pref("dom.security.https_only_mode", true);
user_pref("ui.systemUsesDarkTheme", 1);

Then sync or backup the whole directory, excluding the "cache" subdirectories to save space.

(Pet peeve: Firefox, please use $HOME/.cache/ like every other app!)

You might try losing everything but the .json and .sqlite files. Have not checked, but that is probably enough. Only missing paths are regenerated when you launch Firefox.

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JubilantJaguarreply
lemmy.world

Thanks. This spurred some research and I decided to disable the disk cache entirely instead:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true):
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 512000);

Seems an easy way to avoid the SSD churn and syncing issues, since today's fast internet connections make disk caching less useful. That may be wrong but so far it seems as fast as ever.

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JubilantJaguarreply
lemmy.world

Interesting, yes. By which you mean fiddling with /etc/fstab to mount a tmpfs partition and pointing the cache directory at that ? Any pros and cons you know about?

Anyway, after a bit of browsing I really cannot detect any performance difference since disabling caching. So seems a good deal so far. I wish Firefox had a simple on-off switch instead of needing a bunch of config tweaks to do this.

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JubilantJaguarreply
lemmy.world

Thanks, useful tips.

Sounds like a good idea to propose on https://connect.mozilla.org

Done. 24 hours ago but still awaiting moderation! I didn't know about this forum. Unfortunately they are obviously snowed under by feature requests, many of them unmerged duplicates. So not expecting much, alas.

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