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ndegruchy | 3 months ago

I think there is probably a lot of work to do to fully pry the .mozilla folder apart. For a long time they've simply shipped everything in that folder and rolled with it. Making decisions on what is actually cache and what is user config vs "application data" is probably going to be harder than splitting the folder.

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amiga386|3 months ago

That's true, but they've already done it for macOS... ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/ (for both the config and non-config data) versus ~/Library/Caches/Firefox/ (for cached data that can always be deleted)

abdullahkhalids|3 months ago

Extension data also lives in the profile folder. Some of those might start failing because of splitting up the profile into multiple folders.

ndegruchy|3 months ago

Oh, I hadn't even _thought_ of that. Yeah, that's going to be a fun debate. Realistically, extensions shouldn't care about the folder structure of other parts of the profile, but I also know that there is a _lot_ of history there.

shmerl|3 months ago

FYI, they do use $HOME/.cache/mozilla already for a long time.

shevy-java|3 months ago

> I think there is probably a lot of work to do to fully pry the .mozilla folder apart.

So, things change over time. The question is: is the codebase at Mozilla still "living" in that it can adjust or be adjusted?

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/firefox...

Requiring a mozconfig file shows that the code base has failed to transition to cmake or meson/ninja (directly; there is some python wrapper which may help here but I refer to the primary configuration). Mozilla gave up on Firefox a long time ago already.