Firefox & tmpfs

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 11 January 2011 07:28, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
>> Performance. :)
>
> Old versions of Firefox you could easily configure the size of RAM cache
> as well as file system cache... On modern versions I can only see a
> setting for "Cache" which is the filesystem one.
>
> If you put the cache in a tmpfs, that is, in fact, RAM (which is why it
> gets deleted at each reboot).
>
> If you have plenty of RAM (and Sandy has 8 gigs, plenty for doing only
> open office and firefox on a single user desktop) then allocating a gig
> or so to tmpfs and putting firefox cache in there is a great way to
> increase firefox caching performance by orders of magnitude.
>
> Gilles.

would this clear the browsing history, saved tabs, etc when the system
is rebooted?
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer