[arch-general] Is preload really working ??

[Alexander Lam]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> On 05/06/2010 01:58 PM, Johannes Held wrote:
>>
>> solsTiCe d'Hiver<solstice.dhiver at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs
>>> (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been
>>> discussed somewhere I think.
>>> How else ?
>>
>> You mean that wikientry?
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed-up_Firefox_using_tmpfs
>>
>
> I did this to test how well tmpfs works for me:
>
> mv .mozilla /dev/shm/moz
> ln -s /dev/shm/moz .mozilla
>
> There was some difference, but not too much as expected.
>
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You should look into the Vacuum Places Improved addon for Firefox
It defrags the sqlite places file.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13878

-- 
Alexander Lam