[nmglug] hard disk usage

[Ed Brown]

The symbiotic relationships between mozilla, firefox, thunderbird and 
other stuff is hard to sort out.  But ~/.mozilla is more than 
preferences (at least everywhere I've used it), it usually has Cache 
directories, that can get Large, including firefox's Cache 
directories.  You really should be able to install Firefox without 
having Mozilla installed, and that would get you significant space 
back, but maybe it's different on Ubuntu...

BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> it's home/mozilla and I have a home/.mozilla for preferences. I know
> Firefox uses mozilla stuff for building Thunderbird and "Bon Echo", the
> Firefox 2.0 that I installed form source. Can't remove the FF1.5 as
> Ubuntu 6.04 uses many of its libraries for other apps. That's why it's
> never been backported. The application Mozilla is in /usr/bin as is
> Firefox. I have both the Mozilla suite and Firefox installed. i have
> considered uninstalling the Mozilla suite but Firefox depends on it.
> No yum for me as I'm on PPC-Ubuntu and so I have Synaptic.
>