Firefox profiles on a tmpfs (ramdisk)?

[Phillip Susi]

On 10/25/2010 1:34 PM, Jouko Orava wrote:
> Using tmpfs, I can save and snapshot the active profile at any time,
> for example in suspend scripts. As long as Firefox syncs changesets
> to the profile files properly, the profile can be copied at any time.
> With a helper, one could save the profile periodically, e.g. after
> suitable periods of inactivity.

This is not true.  If you copy the file wile ff is changing it, you can
end up with a corrupt copy.