UFS How do I speed up firefox by having it not hit disk?

even after enabling the memory only cache firefox feels slower n pause-ier than chrome........

Ok tried copying .mozilla to /tmp

started firefox with firefox -profile /tmp/.mozilla

firefox comes up with no plugins....etc....no configs or bookamarks....does seem faster.
 
azathoth said:
Is md faster than tmpfs?
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It's not. I was using md, because it was what was suggested is a book where I learned about /tmp in RAM, and because it could be started from rc.conf.

I recently read others posts about tmpfs being able to resize the amount of RAM it needs. Dynamically adjusting a RAM filesystem seems like overhead, but it frees up RAM. I recently tried tmpfs over md, and it does seem faster, so I switched over. MD tied up that RAM.

MD probably has its uses, when RAM must be dedicated, but for typical desktop use, tmpfs seems better.
 
azathoth said:
even after enabling the memory only cache firefox feels slower n pause-ier than chrome........
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It may be faster because it has no ad blocker. After all an ad blocker filters every single tab and inevitably consumes more memory and processing power.
 
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