FasterFox? Pfffftt! RAM-Fox!

kdmurray — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:46:06 +0000

You wanna speed up your browser? Get your browser into memory. I posted a couple of weeks ago about creating RAM disks on your system to offer some high-speed storage on your computer. Now the question is: what should I do with it?

RAM Fox!

RAMFox is an implementation of Firefox Portable which is based out of a RAM drive. By loading the application onto the RAM drive, all of the I/O operations that write to the disk are vastly sped up.

The implementation itself is pretty simple: copy the contents of the portable Firefox to the RAM drive and load it from there.

@cls


if "%1"=="bak" goto bak

xcopy c:systoolsramfox /e /s /d /y r:ramfox

call r:ramfoxFF.lnk %1
goto end
:bak

xcopy r:ramfox /e /s /d /y c:systoolsramfox

del c:systoolsramfoxurlclassifierkey3.txt

del c:systoolsramfoxurlclassifier3.sqlite

goto end

:end

The batch file is pretty simple. It just uses xcopy to transfer the files. The key is the second option, the “bak” option which copies the files back from the RAM disk to the permanent storage on the hard drive. What this does is copies back all of the files that were updated during the browsing sessions including passwords, cache and history.

Give this a shot if you’re wanting to find some ways to speed up your browsing experience or ways to make use of your RAM disk.

Image credit: RaeA on Flickr.

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FasterFox? Pfffftt! RAM-Fox!