Saving precious ram browsing as spot

[JASpup]

Config and cache do not seem to present this location challenge as root, but since spot limits outside access, how do we frugally run browsers as a limited user keeping bloated config and cache data on static media?

[Phoenix]

The browser should be writing inside /home/spot and not /root since the user home is there. Now if you absolutely don't want any cache to be written set the browser.offline.cache.enable property to false. If you don't want memory cache set the property browser.memory.cache.enable to false. As well the config is written to disk.

[mikewalsh]

@JASpup :-

I've scripted some alternative 'LAUNCH' scripts for the Firefox & Pale Moon portables, which will enable them to run as 'spot'.....and in so doing, will keep settings/cache, etc, self-contained in one location, just as with the normal run-as-root versions. These can, of course, be kept outside of the 'save', so can, if required, be run from a suitably-formatted external HDD/SSD or USB flash drive.

Perhaps this can assist with your query/concerns? You may still need to apply Phoenix's suggested 'tweaks' to achieve the desired effect, however.

You can find them

Here for Pale Moon:- viewtopic.php?p=55083#p55083
.....and here for Firefox:- viewtopic.php?p=55087#p55087

Maybe they'll help, maybe they won't. Up to you, of course.

Mike.