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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good idea regarding USB debugging. Never did this before. Probably need a quiet weekend to dig into this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Do share your experience after you try it, either here or on the community for firefox.

Will probably help others having the issue too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing. I deleted all Add-Ons but it only slightly decreased.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the extensions perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow. Have you cleared the cache?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes. I cleared cache but that did not reduce the stotage size

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why do you need history? You could export your passwords and then delete storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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