Firefox & tmpfs

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/01/2011 17:35, Sandy Harris wrote:
> I have a machine with lots of RAM, 8 gigs in a single-user
> desktop machine that runs Open Office, Firefox, and not
> much else. /tmp is already on tmpfs.
>
> I'd like to put the Firefox cache on tmpfs as well. How?
> Edit a Firefox config file to put the cache into /tmp?
> Symlink the existing cache directory to one in /tmp?
> Start another instance of tmpfs for this?

To begin with, I don't understand why you would want to do this.

You can delete the FF's CACHE every time you close FF by simply using 
the Edit/Preferences menu, for example.

(What's so special about /tmp which requires you to put it into tmpfs?)

BC

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