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Why does firefox keeps using ~/.mozilla directory?
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Many rather treat standards as suggestions ๐.
Jokes aside, I have wondered what prevents them from doing it too, I guess they probably don't think it's important enough to really work out how to split up the files.
Then again, moving the whole folder to
~/.local/share/mozillawould have been decent enough as a temporary solutionThey could do what Steam does in the short term, which is to move the folder to ~/.local/share/mozilla/* and symlink to ~/.mozilla/*
The reason for doing that instead of symlinking the whole folder is so the configuration could later be moved to ~/.config/mozilla down the line.
I think moving the folder under
~/.localbefore splitting the cache folders out is a bad idea. Many people will have specific backup or sync solutions in place that want to include config, recreate data, and exclude cache, so the XDG spec has separate locations for them.There exists
~/.cache/mozilla(also~/.cache/thunderbird), so I assume the cache is already separated?I know, it's not a complete solution, but it would at least serve as a stop gap to clean the mess out of the home folder, before the actually compliant implementation is made, XDG_DATA_HOME should always be saved as it contains the user generated data of an app (that isn't documents)
Nah. They'd "bike shed" even that idea.