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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    8 months ago

    In settings menu i already deleted:

    • cached images and files
    • downloads

    App Info now gives me:

    • Total: 14.81 GB
    • App: 281 MB
    • User Data: 14.53 GB
    • Cache: 553 KB
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      8 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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        8 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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          8 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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            8 months ago

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

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              8 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.