firefox-shm 0.1

Firefox profile on tmpfs

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

Installation

• installing

Usage

usage:

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

-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

-p

select, selecte a 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=firefox-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 5 minutes a sync
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/firefox-shm --sync

Enough go back to default:

firefox-shm --restore