Firefox & SSD's

[Micks]

If you have an SSD hardrive & use Firefox as a browser like I do you might find Firefox is using up/wearing out your SSD! causing an abnormally high rate
of disc operations. See article here: http://winaero.com/blog/caution-firefox-can-wear-out-your-ssd-drive/

[black_friday]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Micks]

Also to overcome this issue you could run a portable version of Firefox.

I use CCleaner to delete some of the FF dirs and files like the OfflineCache and minidumps

dirs and the cookies.sqlite and places.sqlite files which FF rebuilds on the next startup.

[Wonky]

Fortunately ever since I installed my 1TB SSD I've been running Chrome, only because ages ago FF stopped supporting Norton Identity Safe. My backup Win 10 runs on my 1TB hard drive and FF so I might go in and change that session.store interval there next time I use it. :thumbsup:

[Smitty]

Fortunately ever since I installed my 1TB SSD I've been running Chrome, only because ages ago FF stopped supporting Norton Identity Safe. My backup Win 10 runs on my 1TB hard drive and FF so I might go in and change that session.store interval there next time I use it. :thumbsup:

Gaz.. how have found Chrome lately?
I am not a fan as some time ago I found it a memory/resource hog (like 99% of available!)
so I un-installed it

also, have recently gone to VIVALDI (nice browser... very quick, lean on resources and very modifiable too)
it imported all my FF stuff and has a few great touches I have noticed (like telling you how long, how much data the page needed to load)

[team illucid]

If you have an SSD hardrive & use Firefox as a browser like I do you might find Firefox is using up/wearing out your SSD! causing an abnormally high rate
of disc operations. See article here: http://winaero.com/blog/caution-firefox-can-wear-out-your-ssd-drive/

Only use these nowadays - a little more life than the old SSD https://www.mwave.com.au/product/samsung-950-pro-512gb-m2-nvme-ssd-mzv5p512bw-ab67875?gclid=CKnR-cPuwM8CFQwlvQodICMFiQ

But a good tip for FF users - mostly, I use Edge but I keep FF around for web app hacking :)

[Wonky]

Gaz.. how have found Chrome lately?
I am not a fan as some time ago I found it a memory/resource hog (like 99% of available!)
so I un-installed it

also, have recently gone to VIVALDI (nice browser... very quick, lean on resources and very modifiable too)
it imported all my FF stuff and has a few great touches I have noticed (like telling you how long, how much data the page needed to load)

Fairly unsophisticated measurements but good enough for me - see below. Top measurements taken with a couple of Chrome tabs running, bottom one 30+ mins later with more tabs open. I have 8GB memory and rarely see free memory drop below 5GB.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o274/gcovo/Misc/Chrome%20resources%202.jpg

I also have Cacheman always displaying load on my 4 CPU cores, plus memory used and CoreTemp monitoring the temps of the 4 cores - never seen it working hard on Chrome.