Yes, I was looking for support.The OP was not looking for support; just wanted to rant.
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And my “rants” are relevant critics.FsckDsk wrote:I need help comprehending the purpose of lz4.
I needed help decyphering these lz4 files.
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Faster? No, nothing is faster than plain text.therube wrote:lz4 is faster, they might say.
lz4 is smaller, they might say.
Smaller? Maybe a few dozens of kilobytes. Certainly less than a fraction of 1 digital photo.
Compressed: 10KB.jscher2000 wrote:Compression radically reduces file sizes,
Uncompressed: 100KB.
Relatively a large compression (10×), but 90KB in absolute numbers is really no big deal. For comparison: One second of 1080p video footage can be 2000 KB.
But is it really necessary?morat wrote:lz4 files are an implementation detail of how Firefox stores data.
Maybe for web cache, but should it not be kept optional for bookmarks and sessionstore that amass only a few KB's of disk space?
I am talking about lz4.RobertJ wrote:As usual, you have strong opinions but don't know what you are talking about.
Please clarify to me, what I allegedly do not know.
Thanks, mate.therube wrote:He's not speaking of size, but speaking in terms of a human being being able to manipulate ones data.
And in that respect, he is very correct.
That's precisely what I meant.
I wanted to recover a dead session, but then I hit the walls of lz4 when trying to open it using a plain text editor.
Do you mean recreating a browser from scratch due to one feature?RobertJ wrote:In that case he should build his own browser.
Can it read lz4 files of orphaned browsing sessions?Grumpus wrote:Maybe this link will help - Export Bookmarks