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Speedup Firefox Portable’s Cache [Portableapps.com]
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Firefox Portable runs slower from the USB flash drive because of the drive’s slow write speed. Cheap or generic value brand USB flash drives have a fast read speed but an extremely slow write speed. Excessive writing on a flash drive will wear out the drive faster, shorting its life span.
Firefox like all web browsers need to download web pages and images into the browser’s cache. The cache is used to display the web pages and make it faster to reload/revisit previously visited pages. By default, the cache is disabled in Firefox Portable. Caching creates a lot of disk activity, this activity is not suitable for the flash drive as the drive performance is slow and will shorten its life span.
We can improve Firefox’s speed and protect the flash drive by moving the cache files to the local drive (common drive). The computer’s common drive is much faster than the flash drive, thus greatly improving Firefox Portable’s speed.
Benefits:
- Improves Firefox’s cache speed
- Saves more space on your flash drive
- Prevents shortening your flash drive’s life span
Changing the cache directory:
- First open Firefox Portable
- Type about:config in the address bar
- Accept the warning by clicking the “I’ll be carefully, I promise!” button
- A lager list of all Firefox’s advance options will be displayed
- Right click anywhere on the list
- On the actions’ menu go to New and click String
- In the “Enter the preferences name” field type browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
- Enter the new directory you want the cache to be stored in. I recommend C:\Temp
- Restart Firefox
Why use C:\Temp?
The C drive is the common drive of all Windows’ operating systems. Firefox will automatically create the folder Temp if no folder already exists and a Cache folder will be placed inside. I recommend the use of a Temp folder on the common drive because it is not uncommon for computers to already have one.
For more instructions or information see [Firefox Changing The Cache Directory]
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