Bug#505085: iceweasel: doesn't enforce cache limits

Martín Ferrari tincho at debian.org
Tue Dec 22 20:36:24 UTC 2009


Hi Mike,

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 21:15, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

>> Today, while trying to trim my home directory's disk usage, I found that
>> ..mozilla was using 1.4 GiB of disk, it turned out that
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/jxzb7py6.default/Cache/ was the source of the bloat,
>> even when I have the cache limit set to 200 MiB, *and* after I manually
>> hit the "Clear now" button.
>
> Maybe a stupid question, but is jxzb7py6.default your current profile ?

Well, I can only guess now, but I would bet that it was my only
profile, since I never create different profiles on iceweasel.

At this moment, I don't see this behaviour on my profile. So maybe it
got fixed in the middle or it was some strange corner case. I think it
is safe to close this bug now.

-- 
Martín Ferrari





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