Hi all,
the firefox clone Fennec from F-Droid uses way to much storage.
I was not able to clean it. I am also very afraid of loosing history and stored passwords.
Anybody knows how to savely reduce this? The big storage must be caused by cached Images and or Videos, right?
I don’t use Fennec. But mull.
I hope you know about ‘Clear Cache’, and this issue is not that. If you haven’t done that you can do a simple search to find steps.
If the clear cache did not solve the issue, the only way is backing up only relevant data. It looks like Fennec does support sync. In that case you can login using a mozilla account, and choose what to sync. Once all your stuff is synced with another device, its safe to do whatever you want.
Clear Cache did not help unfortunately. I also tried to clean cache within Fennec from the settings menue.
Regarding Mull. I am using Mull, too. Mull is “only” using 1.31 GB.
In settings there’s a Delete browsing data option.
Select the things you want to clear and run it?Also, do go to the app settings of firefox and see how the storage is being used. How much is the app data? How much is the cache?
In settings menu i already deleted:
- cached images and files
- downloads
App Info now gives me:
- Total: 14.81 GB
- App: 281 MB
- User Data: 14.53 GB
- Cache: 553 KB
Aah. So clearing cache will not help.
Do you have a lot of bookmarks or open tabs or so?
In the Data collection settings, is studies turned on?Have 0 bookmarks and 0 tabs open. I don’t even use Fennec much. Only as second browser next to mull
I searched the settings but find nothing regarding studies.
Aah. Fdroid removes the portions of telemetry.
I use the regular Firefox fenix, so asked about that.I don’t think there are many other options.
There is a remote usb debugging option, but I don’t have much info on that. Maybe that can help you troubleshoot?Good idea regarding USB debugging. Never did this before. Probably need a quiet weekend to dig into this.
Do share your experience after you try it, either here or on the community for firefox.
Will probably help others having the issue too.
If you use a Firefox account, you should be able to sync your history and stored passwords.
I use Fennec from F-Droid as well.
- App Size: 283 MB
- User Data: 743 MB
- Cache: 143 MB
- Total: 1.17 GB
Don’t know why you have so much user data. Maybe one of your extensions?
Thanks for sharing. I deleted all Add-Ons but it only slightly decreased.
It’s the extensions perhaps.
Interesting theory. I deleted all Add-Ons. App Size was reduzed from 14.81 GB to 14.77 GB.
Not sure if they can still store someting which was not deleted with removal.
Wow. Have you cleared the cache?
Yes. I cleared cache but that did not reduce the stotage size
Why do you need history? You could export your passwords and then delete storage.
History of used websites.
And it seems like Fennec does not even support export of passwords. I dont want to share them with Mozilla… too afraid of a data leak
