This is a simple guide to allow you to keep your FireFox internet cache on a RAM disk. Why would you want to do this? Simple: Random Access Memory is umpteen times faster to access than conventional HardDisk memory, so if your temporary internet files are kept on RAM, it allows you to jump around through pages you have already visited and access the temp files (namely, picture files) much quicker than if these files were kept on the HD. This can result in much faster browsing of the websites you frequent.
Here are the steps to do this in Windows 2000/NT/2003/XP:
Go to http://www.arsoft-online.com/index.php?opt...leinfo&id=4 and download ramdisk.zip
This program will let you created a new drive on your computer (X:\ or whatever you like) composed entirely of RAM. You can allocate as much RAM as you like, but I would suggest to act conservatively at first. My own ramdrive is set to 50MB because that's how much memory the default FireFox Cache will take up.
You will need to restart your computer after setting up your new ramdrive.
Now, open up FireFox and, in the address bar, type in "about:config" and right click anywhere on the screen presented. Go "New>String" and type in "browser.cache.disk.parent_directory". Now double click on your new entry and, in the field provided, offer the drive letter of your newly created ramdrive (X:\ Z:\ or whatever).
Restart FireFox and try out your new settings!
Note that because this new drive is RAM, it's contents will be erased automatically every time you shutdown or restart your computer, this makes it ideal for temp files, not so much for anything else you'd like to hang on to...
OK?
Happy surfing,
VEB.