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Is a large, persistent, storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal an issue with NoScript (itself, more so then just a bug in Mozilla's sqlite implementation)?

As in, is there something NoScript should be doing specifically, that it might not be doing, or is it simply a general issue (that if fixed would result in [far] less sized files)?

Bugzilla: Bug 1813330 storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal extension data never cleaned up

Each colored band, with exception, is an individual Profile.
The file dated 2024 is my current 115 ESR (uptime since 12/19/2023 & counting).
That 18 MB file is (most likely) from FF versions up to 115 ESR (when I most likely stopped using that Profile altogether).




Extensions:

NoScript
uBlock Origin
Firefox Color
Download Grab (which I didn't even recall that I had it installed)


(Without being scientific in any way, & without opening an sqlite GUI or sqlite.exe) I'm guess that the ONLY data in that file is repeated items relating to NoScript.



If I compress storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal, it's size drops from 13 MB to 200 KB (so there is LOTS of repeatable data there).
ZIP 0 storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal -> 0.zip = 200 KB

Of course it's a Firefox bug.

No matter what it does, no WebExtension should be able to cause this problem, also because the storage API is completely agnostic to the actual sqlite-based back-end implementation.

(See also viewtopic.php?t=26900 . And you can also get rid of the storage-sync-v2.sqlite-wal and save on storage space by, after completely quitting Firefox, just open storage-sync-v2.sqlite in DB Browser for SQLite and close it without making any changes.)