Expand saved Firefox profile to full directory #62
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A full profile after a year or so of browsing can be around 500 MB. A new profile with very few page visits is around 20MB. |
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When we expand the saved profile to the full directory we should also consider the following: Edit: moved this to its own issue (#918) as it is not trivial |
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Save the whole Firefox profile directory instead of only saving a few of its subcomponents. Remove an unused import of shutil from profile_commands.py. Additionally, remove the `extension_port.txt` file after reading the port from it, to prevent reading stale port information when a browser is restarted after a crash. Finally, remove a part of the documentation that references the old way of dumping the profile and update a leftover reference to the `log_directory` config option. Closes #62.
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* Save full Firefox profile Save the whole Firefox profile directory instead of only saving a few of its subcomponents. Remove an unused import of shutil from profile_commands.py. Additionally, remove the `extension_port.txt` file after reading the port from it, to prevent reading stale port information when a browser is restarted after a crash. Finally, remove a part of the documentation that references the old way of dumping the profile and update a leftover reference to the `log_directory` config option. Closes #62. * Test saving full profile Add a test that checks that attempting to save an incomplete profile raises an error. Also, extend `test_saving` to check that a few basic files and directories of the Firefox profile are present in the archived profile.
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* Save full Firefox profile Save the whole Firefox profile directory instead of only saving a few of its subcomponents. Remove an unused import of shutil from profile_commands.py. Additionally, remove the `extension_port.txt` file after reading the port from it, to prevent reading stale port information when a browser is restarted after a crash. Finally, remove a part of the documentation that references the old way of dumping the profile and update a leftover reference to the `log_directory` config option. Closes openwpm#62. * Test saving full profile Add a test that checks that attempting to save an incomplete profile raises an error. Also, extend `test_saving` to check that a few basic files and directories of the Firefox profile are present in the archived profile.
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Right now we restrict ourselves to just copying a few subcomponents of the profile. i.e. cookies and localStorage. Why not copy all files?
There may be some additional concerns such as extensions present in the profile directory that a user may not expect, but we can either constrain the browser configuration to be the same, or load and save the configuration alongside the profile.
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