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How to move any and all disk writes made by firefox to ANOTHER drive?

EarlZ
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I need to know how to move any and all disk writes that firefox is doing on my OS drive, Im taking all the steps to ensure that my SSD does not get more than 25Gb or writes/day as firefox writes as high as 10Gb/day on it.

I need to know how to move any and all disk writes that firefox is doing on my OS drive, Im taking all the steps to ensure that my SSD does not get more than 25Gb or writes/day as firefox writes as high as 10Gb/day on it.

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To move your profile folder,

  1. Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Click the Show Folder button.
  3. Exit Firefox.
  4. Move the folder that opened in a Windows Explorer window earlier to its new location, then make a note of the path (e.g. D:\Stuff\zdy89wk3.default).
  5. Click the Windows logo orb on the taskbar.
  6. In the search box, paste the following, then press Enter: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\
  7. Open the profiles.ini file in Notepad.
  8. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0 and change the path value to the new location of the profile folder.
  9. Save and close the file.

Firefox also writes a few things to your %LocalAppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\ folder. That's where it keeps the thumbnails for the New Tab Page and the offline cache (a special type of storage that requires your permission to be used — most sites don't make use of it).
I don't know a proper way to move the whole thing elsewhere; maybe someone else does. If no one posts any suggestions and you're absolutely intent on moving it elsewhere, you can relocate it using symbolic links while Firefox is closed. Otherwise, you can set just the Offline Cache to another location.

Firefox will write to your temporary folder when choosing the Open option when downloading a file. The simplest way to avoid this is to always save downloads to a specific location (by default, downloads automatically go in your default download folder).
As I recall, Firefox may also write to your temporary folder when viewing plug-in content, but I can't reproduce this; it may have changed in recent versions.

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Gingerbread Man
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To move your profile folder,

  1. Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter.
  2. Click the Show Folder button.
  3. Exit Firefox.
  4. Move the folder that opened in a Windows Explorer window earlier to its new location, then make a note of the path (e.g. D:\Stuff\zdy89wk3.default).
  5. Click the Windows logo orb on the taskbar.
  6. In the search box, paste the following, then press Enter: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\
  7. Open the profiles.ini file in Notepad.
  8. Change IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0 and change the path value to the new location of the profile folder.
  9. Save and close the file.

Firefox also writes a few things to your %LocalAppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\ folder. That's where it keeps the thumbnails for the New Tab Page and the offline cache (a special type of storage that requires your permission to be used — most sites don't make use of it).
I don't know a proper way to move the whole thing elsewhere; maybe someone else does. If no one posts any suggestions and you're absolutely intent on moving it elsewhere, you can relocate it using symbolic links while Firefox is closed. Otherwise, you can set just the Offline Cache to another location.

Firefox will write to your temporary folder when choosing the Open option when downloading a file. The simplest way to avoid this is to always save downloads to a specific location (by default, downloads automatically go in your default download folder).
As I recall, Firefox may also write to your temporary folder when viewing plug-in content, but I can't reproduce this; it may have changed in recent versions.

EarlZ
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Gingerbread_Man

Thanks for the speedy reply and very good instructions, Im using ssd ready to monitor the writes and I dont see any writes from firefox on my SSD anymore, sweet!

Thanks again!

Gingerbread Man
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You're quite welcome.

I should also mention Firefox Portable. It's intended to be installed on a Flash drive, but you can also install it to a hard disk. All of its data is stored under the installation folder. Its profile is stored under <installation folder>\Data\profile so that's where you would copy or move the files from your current profile if you wanted to.