Is there a add-on or something to store my about:config settings in cloud so when i distrohop i dont have to set it manually?

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks. This spurred some research and I decided to disable the disk cache entirely instead:

    user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", false);
    user_pref("browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled", false);
    user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
    user_pref("browser.cache.offline.enable", false);
    user_pref("browser.cache.memory.enable", true):
    user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 512000);
    

    Seems an easy way to avoid the SSD churn and syncing issues, since today’s fast internet connections make disk caching less useful. That may be wrong but so far it seems as fast as ever.

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        1 year ago

        Interesting, yes. By which you mean fiddling with /etc/fstab to mount a tmpfs partition and pointing the cache directory at that ? Any pros and cons you know about?

        Anyway, after a bit of browsing I really cannot detect any performance difference since disabling caching. So seems a good deal so far. I wish Firefox had a simple on-off switch instead of needing a bunch of config tweaks to do this.