Speed up Firefox with TmpFS
Speed up Firefox with TmpFS Introduction This shows how to speed up Firefox by running it entirely from RAM to improve speed. Most of the credit for this article should go to here, from which I have taken most of this information, with the exception of improving his shell-script understandability. Firefox uses SQLlite to store most of its information. As SQLite accesses are I/O bound, Firefox suffers when from disk drive bottleneck and competition for read/writes with other processes. Create RAM partitio n Add this entry in /etc/fstab : firefox /home/xxxx/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default tmpfs size=128M,noauto,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 Shell Script #!/bin/bash WORKING_LOCATION = "/home/jondoe/Sata/Linux/presets/home-configs" # Directory where RAM_DIR and LOCAL_DIR exist RAM_DIR = "/home/ jondoe /Sata/Linux/presets/home-configs/firefox3_ram" # Location mounted TmpFS LOCAL_DIR = "/home/ jondoe /Sata/Linux/presets/home-configs/firefox3_local" # Ha...