Clean Firefox non-default profile locations

[Andrew Ziem]

Firefox allows multiple profiles and profiles in weird locations.

http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/forum/cleaning-firefox-evercookies-profile-non-default-location

[SamioSeven (zefiro75)]

On Linx, latest mozilla Firefox versions' Aurora and Nightly moved ( or replicated ) the cache location ( or part of the profile ) on ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/ subdir
es. ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/firefox.aurora , ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/firefox.nightly , ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/firefox.default

Should I fill a new bug / feature request?

I think this may be the right place.

Cheers,
Samio

[kngharv (kngharv)]

for Thunderbird, there is a profile.ini file which bleachbit can parse and generate thunderbird.xml file from it. I don't know if this holds for Firefox.

[SamioSeven (zefiro75)]

I think this is a new behavior of Firefox, not only a standard location found on profile.ini. This for linux ubuntu 12.04 and Firefox > 20.0 ( beta, alpha, nightly )

You may check.

I have tried standard firefox ( 20.0 ) and unstable one ( beta, aurora, nightly ), unstable versions are not intercepted by bleachbit 0.9.5.

Cheers,
Samio

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

I wish I could always fix all the bugs, but I am rescheduling because there are already 24 fixes ready for BleachBit version 1.12, so I do not want to delay the fixes that are ready.

[user1033 (user1033)]

Could this be fixed any time soon? At least before June 2018?
Firefox 57, scheduled for this November, is dropping support for XUL/XPCOM add-ons, which means a lot of people will switch to Pale Moon, Waterfox, etc.

Also related bug #797995.

[Mélodie (meets)]

Hi,

I come here to add my contribution : I use Firefox 56.0 (64 bits) on Ubuntu Xenial and Bleachbit 1.10. While cleaning as simple user, I get this message related to Firefox sqlite databases:

"Error in execution of <bleachbit.Command.Function instance at 0x7fd54f432050>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Worker.py", line 84, in execute
    for ret in cmd.execute(self.really_delete):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Command.py", line 146, in execute
    self.func(self.path)
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/FileUtilities.py", line 739, in vacuum_sqlite3
    execute_sqlite3(path, 'vacuum')
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/FileUtilities.py", line 300, in execute_sqlite3
    conn = sqlite3.connect(path)"

I don't code and know nothing about the python langage. I can just tell you what command line I use to compress the databases in Firefox, in case it gives you an idea how to fix it in Bleachbit?

Here is what I do:

"for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f "vacuum;"; done"

here are all the files ending with ".sqlite" in my profile:

*******
$ find .mozilla/firefox/ -name "*.sqlite"
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/kinto.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage-sync.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/places.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/content-prefs.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/webappsstore.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/cookies.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/stylish.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/permissions.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/formhistory.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/downthemall.net/queue.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/favicons.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2029012401EexhtceanCspiuotnrSat.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3561288849sdhlie.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/2918063365piupsah.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage/permanent/indexeddb+++fx-devtools/idb/478967115deegvatroootlss--cans.sqlite
.mozilla/firefox/8t9yu907.default/storage/permanent/moz-safe-about+home/idb/818200132aebmoouht.sqlite
*******
thank you for the work of developing this excellent tool you do!

Regards,
Mélodie

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

Mélodie,

The issue about SQLite issue needs its own ticket because it is confusing to discussing it in this rather-unrelated thread. If you see this with BleachBit version 1.17 or later, please file an issue in GitHub using the link here https://www.bleachbit.org/help

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

Commit 6c50dd2673bba9c5980f8d454673c2a38bb7c534 cleans all profiles under ~/.mozilla/firefox , and a future version will delete profiles listed in the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini

[Andrew Ziem (ahziem1)]

P.S., this commit also makes it easy to add any profile directory by adding one line in firefox.xml