[Greasemonkey] MagicLine

[Jeff Barr]

Excellent, this is very helpful.

Jeff;

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 15:24:41 -0700, "Edward Lee" <edilee at gmail.com> said:
> On 8/3/05, Nikolas Coukouma <lists at atrus.org> wrote:
> > Theoretically, strings should be able to go on until there's no more
> > memory space for it to fill because the underlying prefs system uses
> > char* . I haven't heard of anyone hitting a limit, but you're certainly
> > welcome to try making Really Big Strings and storing them.
> 
> Well.. I put some big long value inside my prefs.js file for
> greasemonkey to request.
> 
> edward staff 320016968 Aug  3 10:16 prefs.js
> 
> The actual value is 320,000,000 characters long, and other bytes are
> used for other preferences/text stuff.
> 
> I used greasemonkey to pull the value using GM_getValue('tmp').length,
> and it reports it to be exactly 320,000,000. So I guess there
> shouldn't be a worry about being able to store large values....
> However, it does impact the load time of firefox to read in the
> prefs.js ;) Pulling the actual value (and calculating the length)
> doesn't take too long on the system I'm on.. but I hope people aren't
> storing hundred megs of data in the preferences. :)
> 
> -- 
> Ed
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