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Old 09-24-2015, 09:51 PM   #26446
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Why on earth would you do this? The only reason I can think about is to prevent others from looking into the profile, assuming you store it into an archive that has a password. I think Firefox won't be much faster running from a RAM-drive than when running from an SSD. I wouldn't even be surprised if Firefox just reads and caches its profile in RAM on its own.

The only thing I'd use RAM-drives for are thousands and thousands of small temporary files that don't need to be saved. Maybe I should try and set up one for Calibre's Edit Book functionality, as it spits out a lot of small files when opening a book.
Well, on linux /tmp should already be automounted as a tmpfs most places, if not it is extraordinarily easy to setup.
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