I use Uzbl as my main Web browser for nearly two years now, and today I discovered one of the reasons I prefer this browser over Mozilla Firefox.
Here is the directory of a new Firefox profile, right after
its creation by firefox -profilemanager:
$ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/personal $ ls -lh total 24M drwxr-xr-x 18 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:57 Cache drwx------ 2 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:59 OfflineCache -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 1.3M Nov 28 20:01 XUL.mfasl drwx------ 2 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:58 bookmarkbackups -rw------- 1 damien users 64K Nov 28 20:01 cert8.db -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 96K Nov 28 19:58 chromeappsstore.sqlite -rw------- 1 damien users 169 Nov 28 19:58 compatibility.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 224K Nov 28 19:57 content-prefs.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 512K Nov 28 20:01 cookies.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 64K Nov 28 19:57 downloads.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 119 Nov 28 19:57 extensions.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 384K Nov 28 19:57 extensions.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 160K Nov 28 19:57 formhistory.sqlite -rw------- 1 damien users 16K Nov 28 20:01 key3.db -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 3.3K Nov 28 20:01 localstore.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 3.1K Nov 28 19:58 mimeTypes.rdf drwx------ 2 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:57 minidumps -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 64K Nov 28 19:57 permissions.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 10M Nov 28 19:58 places.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 32K Nov 28 19:58 places.sqlite-shm -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 0 Nov 28 19:58 places.sqlite-wal -rw------- 1 damien users 7.3K Nov 28 19:57 pluginreg.dat -rw------- 1 damien users 2.7K Nov 28 20:01 prefs.js -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 8.8K Nov 28 19:57 search.json -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 64K Nov 28 19:57 search.sqlite -rw------- 1 damien users 16K Nov 28 19:57 secmod.db -rw------- 1 damien users 998 Nov 28 19:58 sessionstore.bak -rw------- 1 damien users 653 Nov 28 20:01 sessionstore.js -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 288K Nov 28 19:57 signons.sqlite drwxr-xr-x 2 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:58 startupCache -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 10M Nov 28 20:01 urlclassifier3.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 154 Nov 28 19:58 urlclassifierkey3.txt drwxr-xr-x 3 damien users 4.0K Nov 28 19:59 weave -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 96K Nov 28 19:57 webappsstore.sqlite $ file * Cache: directory OfflineCache: directory XUL.mfasl: Mozilla XUL fastload data bookmarkbackups: directory cert8.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) chromeappsstore.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database compatibility.ini: ASCII text content-prefs.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 3 cookies.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 4 downloads.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 8 extensions.ini: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators extensions.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 3 formhistory.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 3 key3.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) localstore.rdf: XML document text mimeTypes.rdf: XML document text minidumps: directory permissions.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 2 places.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 11 places.sqlite-shm: data places.sqlite-wal: empty pluginreg.dat: HTML document text prefs.js: ASCII English text search.json: ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators search.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database secmod.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) sessionstore.bak: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines, with no line terminators sessionstore.js: ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators signons.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 4 startupCache: directory urlclassifier3.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database, user version 7 urlclassifierkey3.txt: ASCII text weave: directory webappsstore.sqlite: SQLite 3.x database
And here are the config and data directories of Uzbl after two years of daily use:
$ cd $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/uzbl $ ls -lh total 24K -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 8.6K Nov 18 12:55 config -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 892 Oct 24 14:28 cookie_whitelist -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 238 May 4 2011 no_history drwxr-xr-x 3 damien users 4.0K Nov 18 17:17 scripts $ file * config: ASCII C program text cookie_whitelist: ASCII text no_history: ASCII text scripts: directory $ cd $XDG_DATA_HOME/uzbl $ ls -lh total 1.6M -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 12K Nov 23 13:29 bookmarks -rw------- 1 damien users 40K Nov 28 19:54 cookies.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 damien users 1.5M Nov 29 10:16 history -rw-rw-rw- 1 damien users 24K Nov 29 10:05 session-cookies.txt $ file * bookmarks: UTF-8 Unicode English text cookies.txt: ASCII text, with very long lines history: UTF-8 Unicode English text, with very long lines session-cookies.txt: Web browser cookie text