Bug 748189 - change the default cache location
Summary: change the default cache location
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-22 21:34 UTC by Pádraig Brady
Modified: 2012-12-21 13:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-12-21 13:50:47 UTC
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Mozilla Foundation 239254 0 None None None 2012-08-14 14:48:15 UTC

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.


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