Run Firefox Profile in a RAMDISK

Using a free RAMDISK software application, you can run your entire Firefox profile in memory. The benefit is a speedier Firefox. However, you will need to sacrifice a small portion of your system's memory.

In this example, I use 128MB of memory out of 1GB in a virtual machine (Virtual Box), using Windows XP as an example. This works in Windows Vista/7, both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Path to profile directories:
Windows 2000/XP/2003:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Windows Vista and Windows 7:
C:\Users\USERNAME\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Profile.ini changes:

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=[RAMDISK DRIVER LETTER]:\Profiles\PROFILENAME.default

Links:
MozBackup -- http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/download.php
DataRam RamDisk: -- http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk/download-ram...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ram disk
• freeware
• backup
• Firefox
• faster
• Mozilla
• profile
• instructions

[TheRealFaziri]

Bah, how do you fix this bug where it refuses to format the ramdrive when you auto-load an image, effectively making it useless? win7 won't show unformatted drives

[midfingr]

@TheRealFaziri Hi. Sorry for the late reply and I apologize for the video freezing; the same thing is happening to me.

Unfortunately, DataRAM doesn't recommend formatting. You have to run 'as as', which is FAT32. It is buggy, however and took a few reboots to get the thing to show up in Win7.

[xXScorpion696Xx]

Does it necessary to check Save and Load image? if I want to make just for cache files.. like page and profiles.

thanx.

[TheGobedan]

@TheGobedan Oh, uploader's too. :/

[TheGobedan]

PC's name - MidFingr, LOL :D

[mythosbeta5]

@midfingr

You call "\" forward slash and "/" backslash. That's just wrong.

[zepprx]

How does one move the profile in Windows 7 and the latest version of Firefox (4.0 or 8.0)?? The folders are completely different, and there is no longer a Profile Manager.

Secondly, I tried moving the Firefox cache, as well, via the about:config, and wrote the RAMDisk as the path, but I don't think it's working. The folder remains empty (0 KB).

[8lindfury]

Why don't you click autosave?

[TheHacker1101]

....it works windows 7 64 bit

it's all about SPEED folks.

Thanks for the info uploader.

[Nhgube]

Bummer I get a run-time error `429`:

ActiveX component can't create object

The Dataram_User_Manual_35.pdf on the website says to run

Register Componets.bat to fix the problem but the bat file is nowhere to be found?

[dyingjedi]

For windows 7 32bit/64bit

Wanted to mention to you at 8:27 of your HowTo Video Tutorial a correction needs to be made, AppData needs to be added into the string like so..

C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Roamin­g\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

best of luck good video can Increase Internet browsing & cut down lots of time using this method of using a RamDisk! Im going to be posting a Video or text response with lots more info to start people in learning more about the benefits of using Ramdrive/Ramdisk!