Firefox Speedup on Linux

Here is a neat little trick that I found at TomBuntu to increase the speed of reads and writes to the cache for Firefox under Linux. There are many other tips relating to SSD drives but I found this one could be used with any system.

"Firefox puts its cache in your home partition. By moving this cache in RAM you can speed up Firefox and reduce disk writes. Complete the previous tweak to mount /tmp in RAM, and you can put the cache there as well.

Open about:config in Firefox. Right click in an open area and create a new string value called browser.cache.disk.parent_directory. Set the value to /tmp."

Found at TomBuntu