Browser Support • MINOR "issue" on Linux; Pale Moon and Basilisk

Operating system : (Debian) Linux Browser version : All Hi, is there a dedicated Linux subthread? i install new browser versions by simply extracting the *.tar.xz achives (of Firefox, PaleMoon and Basilisk) into a "Portable" folder and copying the profile folder (from the previous version) into it. Some days later (when no serious problems with the new version occur) i then delete one of the older versions folder. The issue arises when i clone my ~/home folder to another ssd with rsync (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync): rsync offers a --delete option which (usually) permits an exact cloning of a directory. But for a few subdirectories of (firefox,) Basilisk and Pale Monn rsync isn't able to delete some special folders, which do contain .parentlock, .metadata or .metadata-v2 files:

• Palemoon-34.x/Profile/storage/permanent/chrome
• Palemoon-34.x/Profile/storage/permanent/indexeddb+++fx-devtools
• Palemoon-34.x/fonts Current example:

CODE:

cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/fontsdeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/fonts/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanent/indexeddb+++fx-devtoolsdeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanent/indexeddb+++fx-devtools/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanent/chromedeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanent/chrome/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanentdeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/permanent/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storagedeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/storage/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profiledeleting Portable/Palemoon-34.0/Profile/cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.0cannot delete non-empty directory: Portable/Palemoon-34.1/fonts

Remark: yes, the (pairwise) order of the messages is somewhat strange. (The Palemoon-34.1/Profile folder is still present!)

These three folders, and it behaves identically for the three mentioned browsers. Really no a big deal - as i boot into the backup systems regularly an delete the old folders manually. But maybe it's possible to optimize some (obviously mozilla-inherited) linux-code. Have a nice sunday!