[Nottingham] Vast speedup of firefox!

[Camilo Mesias]

Hi,

it sounds like a job for an init script... on 'start', if there is a
saved mozilla dir, put it into your home dir. On stop, copy the
mozilla dir into persistent storage. It should run before you have
logged in. Wouldn't work well for a server with many users but fine
for a netbook with few.

I'd probably use tar to save the whole mozilla dir as a single file,
and make ~/.mozilla the mount point for tmpfs thus avoiding any links.

Is it still advisable to use the sqlite vacuum trick to improve
performance, do you know? If so it might be worth doing it on shutdown
automatically.

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/08/vacuum-firefox-databases-for-better-performance-now-with-no-restart/
- do it from the browser

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/
- command line version for integration with your scripts, maybe

-Cam