Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 8:03 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
Parent article: Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Hibernating with important data in memory is a really bad idea anyway because it all ends up on the disk.

Just encrypt your swap partition that will include the hibernation image and have bootup ask for the key to it.

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Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:13 UTC (Thu) by MattPerry (guest, #46341) [Link] (2 responses)

Are you sure that hibernating puts the image on swap? I don't see that as a possibility since if you have swapped out data that is already on the swap partition, it will be overwritten. That nearly guarantees a crash of some type when you turn on the computer again.

Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:17 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Yes, hibernation uses the swap partition.

Mozilla Weave 1.0 makes the browser experience portable

Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Um, hibernation isn't that dumb. It uses *unused* swap. It doesn't
overwrite swapped-out pages. :)

(of course if you don't have enough swap free, you can't suspend to swap.)