firefox-shm
Release 0.1

Firefox profile on tmpfs

firefox-shm

Use tmpfs on /dev/shm to store firefox profile. No need root user rights. User can create, delete, and sync by his own.

Depencies: rsync

usage:

usage: firefox-shm [-h] [-v] [-b] [-c] [-s] [-r]

`-h`	show this help message and exit
`-v`	make script noisily
`-b`	backup, created a copy in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ from current selected profile with suffix .archive
`-c`	create, move the current profile, and created the shm directory, and copy current selected profile, and symlink it
`-s`	sync, syncing the temporary profile the local profile
`-r`	restore, deleting the temporary profile and move archive profile to current profile

initialize it:

firefox-shm --create

To do this automatic on login, here an example for Mate-desktop.

~/.config/autostart/firefox-shm.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=firefoxc-shm --create
Hidden=false
X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true
Name=firefox-shm

Do syncing the temporary profile back to local use crontab.

crontab -e:

# do every 30 minutes a sync
*/30 * * * * /usr/bin/firefox-shm --sync

Do syncing on logout. Add entry to:

~/.bash_logout:

firefox-shm --sync

Enough go back to default:

firefox-shm --restore

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Last synced: 2021-12-15 15:31:01 UTC