On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote:
>> 
> <snip>
>>>  We do it mostly to set a few defaults (like home pages etc), but we could
>>>  proably live without it for a while if we understood what else has
>>>  changed... :-)
>> 
>> And we do it mostly to ban the cache from the users' home directories. To 
>> avoid 50MB/user being occupied by cached web pages in their home 
>> directories and on our backup tapes.
>
> Hmm, hadn't thought of that.  We used to force the cache size down low but 
> not the location.  Maybe moving it into a suitable tmp (or tmp-like) place 
> would actually work.  That sounds like a very good idea, I must steal it at 
> once!!
>
> I suppose you need a different Cache directory for each active profile or the 
> browsers will corrupt things.  How do you arrange that?

we have this in the .cfg:

// this file must start with // ...
var env_user = getenv("USER");
lockPref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","/tmp/.ffcache-"+env_user);

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