FireFox keeps loosing data

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

>> Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other 
>> items. You should never store these on NFS.
>
> Really? It has worked properly for years; it's only been broken for some 
> months. Besides history works perfectly. Wouldn't any corruption produce 
> some sort of log somewhere?

Never use file locking on NFS.  Period.  One day it *will* bite you, due 
to some yet-to-be-discovered bug.  In the meantime, feel free to ignore 
the advice of those who have been there before...

-- Dave