Jun
30
2010
Posted by ebal at
15:31:08
in blog, planet_ellak
comzeradd has suggested a hack to speed up firefox: speed up firefox (reloaded).
I want to speed up firefox & thunderbird too. But i dont want to write a script on boot or use a cronjob script to re-write firefox’s changes to disk.
I was thinking to move the Cache folders to a tmpfs filesystem (ram based), so if you want a different approach take a look on this:
[ebal@mylaptop ~]€ grep Cache /etc/fstab
tmpfs /home/ebal/.mozilla/firefox/5wy0q0l2.default/Cache tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /home/ebal/.thunderbird/lkntkylt.default/Cache tmpfs defaults 0 0
and then just mount them:
[ebal@mylaptop ~]€ sudo mount /home/ebal/.mozilla/firefox/5wy0q0l2.default/Cache
[ebal@mylaptop ~]€ sudo mount /home/ebal/.thunderbird/lkntkylt.default/Cache
Of course the next time you boot up your system, you dont need to mount the Cache folders from the command line.
5wy0q0l2 is my firefox default folder,
lkntkylt is my thunderbird default folder!
Hope this is useful to you too.