Bug 748189

Summary: change the default cache location
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pádraig Brady <p>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Pádraig Brady 2011-10-22 21:34:36 UTC
There is a good benefit to keeping cache files together,
so that they can be mounted on other devices, or ignored from backups etc.
Many apps now put cache files under ~/.cache/
It would be cool if this could be done for firefox.
I suggest this setting:

browser.cache.disk.parent_directory=~/.cache/firefox/$profile/

cheers,
Pádraig.

Comment 2 Pádraig Brady 2012-05-03 14:09:07 UTC
Thanks for looking into this.
It's surprising this isn't already supported
(seeing as it was explicitly requested 9 years ago).
Anyway seems like they're nearly there in:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239254

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Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2012-12-21 13:50:47 UTC
Yes, it's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239254. I'm going to track it upstream.