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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    3 months ago

    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?

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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?

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          3 months ago

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

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            3 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.