The Combat Pretzel » firefox http://www.combatpretzel.com Tom Servo's Online Craphole! Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha en hourly 1 What the fuck Firefox?! http://www.combatpretzel.com/2008/10/what-the-fuck-firefox/ http://www.combatpretzel.com/2008/10/what-the-fuck-firefox/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:17:58 +0000 tomservo http://www.combatpretzel.com/?p=40 So I had my machine idling there, while I was doing some paper work (i.e. bills), noticing that the disks make a short ruckus periodically. Trying to find out what it was, I dtraced my system.

Turns out that Firefox seems to maintain a temporary SQLite database, which holds a copy your browsing history. That database gets purged and then refilled regulary, every 10-15 seconds or so, on my system right now writing out 5MB every time. The reason behind this is apparently data integrity.

The Firefox team seems to expect your filesystem catching fire randomly when you turn around, I’m guessing destroying all its precious SQLite files. Or god knows what. Seriously, the browser nor computer nor disks are doing anything. Yet Firefox is bullshitting me. And it’s not going to be fixed before Firefox 3.1.

What the hell!

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