Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:05:07 +0100 From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FireFox keeps loosing data Message-ID: <EB72015D-F64F-4E4F-8EE9-492AB7A505E8@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <7b0fe581-4643-4397-8e1b-0f0128220c73@netfence.it> References: <7b0fe581-4643-4397-8e1b-0f0128220c73@netfence.it>
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--Apple-Mail=_6429F718-F9A2-475D-B2DF-DF429ADCEEC1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 11 Nov 2020, at 18:31, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: >=20 > Since some months I've been experiencing data loss with Firefox. > I'm currently running Firefox-esr-78.4.1 on FreeBSD 12.2/amd64. >=20 > I guess this is related to cookies, since it loses saved form data and = I keep having to login again on sites where I had logon and never = logout, accept privacy statements and tweak cookie settings again and = again, etc... > History is working perfectly, however. >=20 > This is not systematic: i.e. I may login on = https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/, come back tomorrow morning and still = be logged in, try again in the afternoon and find I've been logged out. > I may start FireFox, go to a site, accept cookies, restart FireFox and = need to accept them again or it might keep settings for some days even = across reboots. >=20 > Running in console does not seem to show relevant messages. >=20 > I must say my home is on NFSv4 (server also FreeBSD 12.2/amd64). >=20 > Any hint on where to look to solve this? Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other items. You should never store these on NFS. Ergo, put your profile folder on a local filesystem. -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_6429F718-F9A2-475D-B2DF-DF429ADCEEC1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.2 iF0EARECAB0WIQR6tGLSzjX8bUI5T82wXqMKLiCWowUCX6w14wAKCRCwXqMKLiCW o53NAJ4slj2QLYXd5qWmzX/V5X7RMhfjWQCggxzBJHIhSur81FT7Kw0q83MVXyw= =3vsc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_6429F718-F9A2-475D-B2DF-DF429ADCEEC1--
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