[RESOLVED] Firefox cache in Ramdrive

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So....

I want to create a ramdrive and use it for Firefox' cache. That's easy to do but when I did the same on my previous system using Maxthon (with IE engine) it did work but if the drive was smaller than a file I was downloading it would truncate the file as soon as it became larger than the drive size.

I made a large enough ramdrive so that rarely happened and it was not difficult to do workarounds when I needed to d/l a file larger than the 750 meg ramdrive using a third party d/l manager.

But now with my new Windows 7 system I don't want to dedicate that much memory to a Ramdrive. The default Firfox cache size is about 50 megs so I'll create a much smaller than 750 meg ramdrive which won't have a noticeable impact on my system which has 3Gigs useable installed.

Question is, after all that, does Firefox download larger files the same way as IEX?... that is does it store it in cache until it's completely downloaded and then transfer it to the default d/l folder (of my choosing) or does it download it directly to that folder outside of its own cache.

From what I've seen looking at the d/l's I've done there's evidence of the download both in Firefox' cache and in the download destination folder in the form of a .part file until the download is complete.

I can't figure out why it shows up twice if it isn't being stored in the browsers cache.

tnx

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Got this from the Firefox forums...

When Firefox downloads a file, it makes a .part file in the destination directory and when the file is complete renames it to the normal filename, it does not store it in the cache.
Even if you have no cache or a small cache, Firefox will successfully download large files. Also, Firefox has a hash table containing only 8000 entries so it will never fill a cache larger than about 300 MB (depending on the graphic heaviness of the pages you visit).

I use Leechftp (free) as a download manager but it is very old. There are many other free ones, I believe Flashget is free and is popular and can be used in combination with the Flashgot extension. I find that the downthemall extension works well, but I don't use it for anything with login data.

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I now have it set up with the 50 meg cache in a 64 meg ramdrive and it works perfectly. If anyone wants to try setting up a ramdrive the one I use is free.. here...

http://www.techsnack.net/gavotte-ram...irtual-hardisk

Faster reads when reloading pages, less fragmentation, less wear on the hard drive and no need to delete/wipe TIF/cache files
because the data in Ram is not permanent.

[Steve R Jones]

I've been setting up ramdrives for IE Temp files for years...Its a nice little boost in page loading...provided you have pleanty of ram to spare.