envis
December 24th, 2012, 05:39 AM
Due to admin rights problems at work :P I ended up deciding to run from my own USB key on the work computer. Its awesome that I can run my own Ubuntu desktop that remembers all my settings and programs installed ect and carry it on a USB stick and boot it on any computer. But I was finding the browser firefox kept jamming all the time on the 2nd day (first day it was less bad for some reason) and I found a great way to speed Firefox at this link https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox_Ramdisk
Basically they suggest 3 ways, I did the easy one:
Method 1: Use RAM-only cache
Firefox can be configured to use only RAM as cache storage. Configuration files, bookmarks, extensions etc. will be written to harddisk/SSD as usual. For this
open about:config in the address bar
set browser.cache.disk.enable to "false" (double click the line)
set browser.cache.memory.enable to "true" (double click the line)
set browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size to the ammount of KB you'd like to spare, to -1 for automatic cache size selection
Main disadvantages of this method are that your tabs won't survive a browser crash, and that you need to configure the settings each user individually. On the other hand on a personal system it probably is the easiest method to implement.
It makes a huge difference so I decided to share this trick :D Also wondering if anyone else has tricks to make persistent live-USB Ubuntu faster?
Basically they suggest 3 ways, I did the easy one:
Method 1: Use RAM-only cache
Firefox can be configured to use only RAM as cache storage. Configuration files, bookmarks, extensions etc. will be written to harddisk/SSD as usual. For this
open about:config in the address bar
set browser.cache.disk.enable to "false" (double click the line)
set browser.cache.memory.enable to "true" (double click the line)
set browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size to the ammount of KB you'd like to spare, to -1 for automatic cache size selection
Main disadvantages of this method are that your tabs won't survive a browser crash, and that you need to configure the settings each user individually. On the other hand on a personal system it probably is the easiest method to implement.
It makes a huge difference so I decided to share this trick :D Also wondering if anyone else has tricks to make persistent live-USB Ubuntu faster?