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protect ssd life, where is streaming temp file store, ram or ssd ?

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when watching streaming video, where is temp file , on my ssd affecting is life or on my ram memory. if it is on the ssd (c) what can i do to change the location of the temp file ?

when watching streaming video, where is temp file , on my ssd affecting is life or on my ram memory. if it is on the ssd (c) what can i do to change the location of the temp file ?

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yes, firefox will manage this automatically and use your ram for some caching - if you have that much ram available, you should probably considering switching to a 64bit version of firefox as well, as it can make use of more of your ram: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

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hi minouatviscan, if you'd like to disable caching on your drive, you can do so by entering about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & then search for the preference named browser.cache.disk.enable. double-click it and change its value to false.

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but where would it be store afterwards, I have 16 gb of ram, can I tell my computer to use ram for temp ?

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computer (I meant Firefox)

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yes, firefox will manage this automatically and use your ram for some caching - if you have that much ram available, you should probably considering switching to a 64bit version of firefox as well, as it can make use of more of your ram: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

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