anilkagi
Hi, @Moddit.
I have made changes concerning Web RTC and Data Reporting and some others things in the about:config page of firefox, by setting ‘datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled’ entry to false and by changing ‘media.peerconnection.enabled’ value to false.
However after reading your post, I checked the ~/.mozilla/firefox/Profile/datareporting/archived/ folder and found that there were two folders one for every month, I suppose and in the August folder there are 153 text files. All are named with some random number, I suppose but with the extensions ‘.main.jsonlz4’. Only one has the extension ‘.event.jsonlz4’. Surprisingly almost all of them are empty. I checked randomly.
And there is already a folder for September, which contains 3 files named with some random number but their extensions are different. They are ‘.modules.jsonlz4’, ‘.optout.jsonlz4’ and ‘.health.jsonlz4’ These are empty too. I opened them as root. There is no data on them.
Are those files empty because of the changes to the about:config?
Is it OK to delete this ‘datareporting’ folder, wouldn’t that make firefox instable?
If I delete this ‘datareporting’ folder, wouldn’t it be created again?
And mysteriously all this is on the Frugal install. However, the dates that these files in the August folder were modified, are not on continuous dates. The dates are like 2, 3, 4, and 6 to 15 continuous and then all the dates in between are missing and start again from 24, 25, 27, 29 and no 30 and no 31. As far as I can remember I have used firefox daily without missing on any day. In between I have Remastered, but I don’t remember the dates on which I Remastered, but I don’t think I have Remastered on the 17 days that these files were created. I will now have to wait for a few days, without Remastering and check again if any files get created and saved.
I don’t understand this behavior of firefox.