Optimizing Windows 10 with running FF cache in RAM

I was reading Arie's article linked to in a sticky here: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/Windows8/Windows-8-on-Solid-State-Drive.html

On the third page, it says to run Firefox cache in RAM. Is this recommended for the purposes of speed, or just to save space on the SSD? I do have an SSD (512 gigs, and 8 gigs RAM). I would do this if it would make FF faster, but at the moment I have no need to preserve space on my C partition. It is around 240 gigs and not nearly used up.

 

I've read that because the browser cache would then be in RAM and not in the hard disk, you would be clearing teh cache every time you shut down teh computer---but until that point, it would be faster.

Is this correct?

 

Interesting link, Pete. Here is the content from post 2:


The main bad things are:

1) This will slow down some plug-ins (Adober reader, for certain)
which rely on being able to get to the data as a file; if we can't
store it on disk in our cache, we'll have to stream it to a temp
file instead.
2) The size of the memory cache is capped at a much lower number than
the size of the disk cache; it's a lot easier to fill it up and
start evicting things.
3) The disk cache, unlike the memory cache, persists across restarts.
This means that you trade off slower startup (due to none of your
restored tabs being in cache) and slower initial visits to all
sites for slightly faster repeat visits to sites, as long as you
didn't visit too much stuff in between.
4) We have ongoing work for Fx4 to make use of the memory cache as
well as the disc cache for the same content (right now we use one
or the other but not both for any given resource). Once we do
that, you'll get all the benefits of this "tweak" without the
drawbacks... and using the tweak at that point will be a strict
loss.

I'm not sure if 2) is valid. If I set the RAM cache to 2 gigs, how could that be less than the 350 megs that FF cache defaults to?

4) is interesting. I'll poke around and see if I can find out if that has already taken place.

 

If it ain't broke, don't dink with it!

Windows, especially Windows 10 knows how to use SSDs just fine.

And Mozilla knows how to set the defaults to optimize Firefox just fine too.

Unless you truly are a computer scientist with advanced knowledge of the Windows 10 operating system as well as the FF browser, do not assume you can tweak them to make them perform better.