Firefox-tmpfs-daemon : sync your mozilla directories to tmpfs
Hi ! I've just written an ugly daemon script to relocate firefox profiles directory to a tmpfs !
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48746
I know, it does the same as firefox-sync, but I've used another approach : the sync is made at boot and stop time with a small daemon script (though it's not a real daemon).
It uses rsync and can handle multiple users.
There are several advantages :
* the copy is made only at boot and shutdown with rsync, it has no impact on firefox startup time
* a copy is always kept on the disk, and the script can recover from a crash, using the old copy
I use it since last week, and another user helped me to debug, so I think it's ready
You can add the script to your daemon array in /etc/rc.conf to use it automatically :
DAEMONS=(... @firefox-tmpfs ...)
It's easy to use :
* rc.d start firefox-tmpfs : move profiles to tmpfs
* rc.d stop firefox-tmpfs : sync profiles to your disk
* rc.d restart firefox-tmpfs : ...
* rc.d save firefox-tmpfs : sync your profile to your disk (just in case), but do not stop using tmpfs
You can find firefox-tmpfs-daemon on AUR : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48746
I hope it will help you, I'd be happy to get some feedback
Last edited by scullder (2011-05-14 13:41:44)
kokoko3k wrote:
Can i set an hourly cron job restart firefox-tmpfs?
I'm asking because i strongly use hibernation on my netbook, but 1/10 of the times it doesn't work and i'm forced to shutdown it "unproperly", so a 'sync online ' (red: while firefox is open/the profile in use) feature would be good.
thanks!
I think it's a bad idea to make a restart while firefox is running, use the save target instead.
rc save firefox-tmpfs
I've never tested intensively this usage so careful
kokoko3k wrote:
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Here's my firefox.desktop exec line now (i'm using 'timeless' sudo):
sudo /etc/rc.d/firefox-tmpfs start ; firefox %u ; for database in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do echo processing $database... ; sqlite3 $database 'VACUUM;'; done ; sudo /etc/rc.d/firefox-tmpfs stop
One nice addition to your 'daemon' would be the ability to select what users and what profiles to keep in tmpfs.
Anyway it works fine, great
I will make a config file in /etc/default. With the current version, you can change the users var in /etc/rc.d/firefox-tmpfs at line 14.
Change
users="`ls -d -c1 /home/*/.mozilla | cut -d/ -f3`"
With a list of users separated by spaces (should work)
users="username1 username2"
Thanks for testing and using
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I told it to keep sync'ed /var/log and my chromium config (yes i don't like to have 2 daemons running, doing the same thing).
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devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
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shm 1004M 152K 1003M 1% /dev/shm
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Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. I have a wndows 7 system and use a Intel core processor. I have restarted several times and still ge this error. I have also tried to reinstall firefox and get the same error
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== today ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MDDS; InfoPath.2; .NET4.0C; AskTbUT2V5/5.8.0.12304)<u>'''Kill Application'''</u>
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See:
'''[[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]'''
'''[[Troubleshooting plugins]]'''
'''[[Basic Troubleshooting]]'''
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after i exit firefox & tried to open,it is not opening,instead this message is coming as 'Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.'kindly help me.everytime to open i have to go to task manager & stop the process.
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== some 2 month ago ==
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Hopefully this will help.
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