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roberts:
Just a heads up, a FYI.

I have heard that for some their backup time is very long.
If you have selected the minefield extension, it could be the reason.

Even though minefield was compiled optimally for binary size and dependencies, minefield, aka, firefox is huge.
Firefox now uses sqlite databases to store many options and history of your browsing, sites visited, downloaded files, etc. In addition there is a huge file XUL.mfasl. All of these reside in your home/tc directory. That's right they will be in the default backup. There goes the backup time and space required.

Even though TC is tiny, your choices can result in bloat and slower running systems.

Personally, I prefer the Opera extension from Curaga. It works well with flash and sound,  i.e., the youtube test.

If you prefer to stay with minefield, you can choose to add these very large files to your .xfiletool.lst and thereby exclude them from your backup. Note, that minefield will still run fine, but some options or settings may not persist as such setting may likely reside in a now excluded file. On the otherhand, you may like it that minefield will not be recording sites visited and files downloaded. Do we even know how large such databases will grow?

Anyways, just wanted to bring this to your attention. Choices for either Opera vs Minefield, or tuning Minefield, or accept these large files.

Here is my .xfiletool.lst with minefield mods

--- Code: ---Cache
XUL.mfasl
opt/.tce_dir
home/tc/mnt
home/tc/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache
home/tc/.macromedia/Flash_Player
home/tc/.opera/opcache
home/tc/.opera/cache4
home/tc/.Xauthority
permissions.sqlite
cookies.sqlite
places.sqlite
search.sqlite
formhistory.sqlite
content-prefs.sqlite
downloads.sqlite
XPC.mfasl

--- End code ---

HTH YMMY

bigpcman:
Thanks for the tip on that one Robert. Guess I'll start using opera.

tobiaus:
i would be wrong not to point out the difference it makes (for me) to delete the one sqlite list (no, urlclassifier is not even listed in roberts post, perhaps it's not in tc) of malware sites, and to delete your cookies (cache, and other things ff can be set to delete on exit) as an alternative to running opera.

opera is a very good, very fast, quality browser if minefield does not work to your satisfaction, and if you're happy browsing with something closed source. perhaps a kazehakase extension would be very good. i believe it is based on gtk(2?) and gecko, and is just the sort of thing to run in tc, yet is just as modern as ff and opera.

roberts:
The files mentioned were gleamed from an ls -lSr of the .mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default directory. YMMV

wiak:

--- Quote from: roberts on January 21, 2009, 08:58:34 PM ---All of these reside in your home/tc directory. That's right they will be in the default backup. There goes the backup time and space required.

--- End quote ---

More generally (not particularly or at least specifically to do with Minefield): if a symlink to a file is stored in home/tc is it only the symlink that gets backed up or the file it links to?

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