Interesting.  Thanks for the tip.  I will try it out.

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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John A. Stewart
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:05 PM
To: Chris Schanzle; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: clients slow down due to unknown process

On 12/05/2012 12:53 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
  Firefox, however, can be brutal. Move the whole profile (copy+symlink is easiest), or maybe start with just moving the cache to the local workstation's disk (/var/tmp/?) or /dev/shm/firefox-$USER to keep it disposable. The cache directory can be set in firefox under the URL about:config -- search for "cache" and note the browser.cache.disk.parent_directory option.

I just ran the script I use on our teaching lab file server to cleanup Firefox related files and it reduced the space used by the home 
directories by over 66%!   My script removes the urlclassifier3.sqlite 
file as well as the cache files.

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