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Twist86

Twist86

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Hello I need some aid on how to do a few things with firefox.

1. Cache only to Memory. I don't want to make a ramdisk just make it so less writes to my new ssd.

2. How to move profile to the secondary HDD drive.


Just cutting loose ends before my SSD gets here. Since I am close the UPS guy he usually gets it here by noon vs 5pm :P
 
You're running Winders I assume? Firefox has some built in command line tools for management and testing in development. There is a hidden app called a profile manager.

In Winders, hit Start > Run, then enter this text, including quotes and case

Code: 
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager

The rest is pretty self explanatory from here. If you were using a Unix derived OS a simple symbolic link would allow you to relocate anything anywhere with out the app knowing.

As for your memory question, well the OS constantly caches out things to the HD so I think that point may be moot.

reference: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments#For_Windows_users
 
I believe this "This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser", means writing it to memory is faster than hdd, and being able to manage the size can reduce the writes.
With the method below there's no disc to make @ start-up.
I'm not promoting ram disc here, just some thoughts:
With ram disc, you can make other folders in it. As well as temporary or unsure dl's to keep from fragging the hdd(and faster).It will autoconfig at start-up but it adds a start-up prog. I haven't used one so I don't know if that time is negligable. Uses up more memory.
Both write to memory so they have the same 'faster than hdd' speed.
Which also means they both dump at power-off.
Firefox - Use memory cache instead of disk cache
Description: If you use Firefox, there's a way to write cached files to RAM instead of the hard disk. This is not only faster, but will significantly reduce writes to the SSD while using the browser.
Instructions: Open Firefox -> Type about:config into the address bar -> Enter -> double-click browser.cache.disk.enable to set the value to False -> Right-Click anywhere -> New -> Integer -> Preference Name "disk.cache.memory.capacity" -> value memory size in KB. Enter 32768 for 32MB, 65536 for 64MB, 131072 for 128MB, etc. -> restart Firefox

http://www.overclock.net/ssd/664738-how-setup-ssd-boot-drive-secondary.html
 
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I see thank you Tlarkin however I just error out each time I try to use that and this includes being able to see hidden files/folders enabled.
Also thank you Benny for the link and the cache wrting...what a genius idea to sort out programs you don't want on the SSD without causing problems.

Albeit a bit of a pain to do but well worth the time invested. Thank you for that one :)
 
Not using run - "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager it just says "refers to a location that is not available etc etc".
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Just dawned on me...needed to use this. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager but my question is it just boots up another Firefox window....I guess I fail to see what this does.

*edit*
Future note do this when all firefox tabs are closed = new profile selection box. Thank you Tlarkin lol.
 
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Dang its a good thing I am doing this when I am...I just got my desktop ready to export to my external and my primary HDD started to make sounds. Sounded like a high pitch wobbling sounds. I think my HDD is about out the door....I swear I think this thing is only a year or so old too.
 
ah yeah those instructions are probably for XP you need to use full file paths. So you got profile manager to work? Should allow you to migrate your profile.

Of course if you were using Unix, it would be even easier :D
 
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tlarkin said:
ah yeah those instructions are probably for XP you need to use full file paths. So you got profile manager to work? Should allow you to migrate your profile.

Of course if you were using Unix, it would be even easier :D
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Yeah....luckily my drive lasted long enough to read this reply :P It stopped making sounds so I plan to use it till my replacement drive gets here as a "slave" with daily backups to my primary storage disk ^-^


@Benny Boy
No the thread you linked showed how to optionally install programs on either SSD or HDD. So for programs for example Emulators or Burning Software I can put on HDD without problems.
 
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