- "File Backups v.0.3.5" does not work properly with Firefox v60+
Mark,
It used to work fine with FF versions up to 59+, though improperly with v60+.
It doesn't save to the C:\downloads\tiddlywikilocations (this is the folder set). It only saves to C:\downloads, and also it doesn't save backups.
I have been using both File Backups and Save Tiddlers extensions with the same tiddlywikylocations folder as a default saving location.
You don't have them both enabled at the same time, do you? That might create a conflict.
No, Only one extension enabled at a time.
In addition, FF is the portable one. If the issue is not W7 64-bit, maybe the portable FF may the issue.
Click the TW save button. ... there should be a message like this:"saver-handler: Saving wiki with method save through saver tiddlyfox" ... if either file-backups or savetiddlers extension is active.
This is when I switch to another browser window tab.
I don't want to derail this thread at all, but I have a slightly related issue. I'm hoping you may be able to help me figure it out (obviously, you owe me nothing, and I appreciate your consideration to any degree).
I believe I'm experiencing a memory leak which may be related to TiddlyBackup (the only extension that consistently works for me).
I use FF61 (TiddlyBackup, Owl, AdNauseam, English Popup Dictionary, ScrollAnywhere; fairly vanilla otherwise), on Manjaro, and I save probably ~100 a time day (or more). I'm using between 5-15GB (including swap) of RAM on FF which only has my wiki loaded.
When I close it out, and reload, I'm back down to minimal FF memory usage. Clearly, I am doing something wrong. I spend so much time in Tiddlywiki (https://philosopher.life/) that I'm willing to spend 15GB of memory if I need to. I'd rather not though.
I have it set to 10 Backups; my wiki is ~18MB in size.
I can't reproduce it other than just through my daily usage (and that isn't terribly consistent either). From a freshly opened browser, I can spam save 20 times in a row, and my memory usage will balloon up for a minutes, but eventually something cuts away at quite a bit of it (still using 3GB of memory instead of 2GB on startup).
However, over the course of a day, it builds up and doesn't get culled away. Is it demonically possessed?
No, I am probably incompetent here. I woke up this morning with almost max memory usage which was solved by just closing the FF for TW (I use FF dev ed for browsing). I'd prefer to only close the browser when I've got an excellent reason.
I may just eventually move to the NPM version, but I've experienced other kinds of problems with it.
TiddlyBackup or file-backupsWhich version do you use?
Latest FF version do have a "debugging tab" called: about:memoryIf you type: about:memory into the URL line you'll get the info. .. There is a lot of it! .. window-objects are the interesting ones.
Since FF57 the program is "multi threaded". So we have a main-process ... which basically does the management and we have. Web Content (pid xxxx) windowsThe Web Content windows contain the different tabs. ... So you can see the memory consumption per tab. ... This is the interesting stuff ... that you can check after some usage and / or some save events.
TiddlyBackup or file-backupsWhich version do you use?I didn't know there was a difference. Mouseover on extension icon says TiddlyBackup, I believe it's file-backups or File Backups 0.3.5 when looking at about:addons.
Latest FF version do have a "debugging tab" called: about:memoryIf you type: about:memory into the URL line you'll get the info. .. There is a lot of it! .. window-objects are the interesting ones.Window-objects seem fine. This is the only place I can find significant memory usage on the page.
7,255.96 MB (100.0%) -- heap-committed
├──7,227.15 MB (99.60%) ── allocated
└─────28.82 MB (00.40%) ── overhead6,900.16 MB (100.0%) -- memory-blob-urls└──6,900.16 MB (100.0%) ++ owner(moz-extension://868df8e4-264e-49a1-a324-6694383935aa/_generated_background_page.html)
Link takes me to: Index of jar:file:///home/h0p3/.mozilla/firefox/2sh2dff4.default/extensions/file-bac...@pmario.github.io.xpi!/
... The "creep" factor (where it grows without intervention) ...
Just came back from vacation. In a previous post I explained how File Backups does not save in the correct file folder any longer. It used to work fine until FF upgraded to 60+. So, it was working fine until the upgrade.
I have Firefox v61 on Windows 7.Is it possible that when I click the save button (on sidebar, on right) to save all my changes, that we can just save over the current TW file without going through all the Firefox Save As dialogs, and confirm to save? TiddlyFox no longer works with FF 61.Thanks!
Today I installed a completely new Firefox Nightly Unbranded 61.0.2 64-bit on a Windows 7. Thereafter I installed the updated file-backups v.0.37 beta.
Once again, the extension does not work. The browser keeps asking if I want to save or open (see my post of August 2).
If I click save, it saves a new copy in my downloads folder, ignoring the fact that the TW is in a sub-folder of my downloads folder. Tried with several TW's and found the same issue. file-backups used to be working fine with FF versions less than 60+. Any clues? Has anybody else is experiencing the same issue?