Firefox is eating your SSD – here is how to fix it

Purgatory · 30 Dec 2016 at 17:26

Firefox is eating your SSD – here is how to fix it

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/firefox-is-chewing-through-your-nand.11346/

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionstore.interval

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=milliseconds+to+minutes

15000 is the default so every 15secs, I set mine to every hour so 3600000 was set as the value for Browser.sessionstore.interval.

jpaul · 30 Dec 2016 at 18:20

discussed a while back too - check with perfmon if you have much IO.

Draeger · 30 Dec 2016 at 18:57

Apparently Chrome does something similar. Anyone know how to alter the integers within it in the same way described for FF?

mrk · 31 Dec 2016 at 21:49

I doubt this matters much with modern SSDs.

I haven't noticed anything off at all, and my Intel 730 has a power on hours count value of 13479hrs (561 days), and SSD Toolbox states it's still at 100% health after 12TB of writes in that time.

Disco_P · 1 Jan 2017 at 01:34

I have two 4.5 year old Samsung 830 drives with over 20TB written. The only issues I have ever had have been because of garbage SATA cables.

10GB a day is nothing. Worry when you get to 100GB

jpaul · 1 Jan 2017 at 08:41

rather than the writes (if you genuinely have them), which, as said, are not a ssd problem;
The more annoying intermittant cpu use from FF, that interrupts is fluidity, is the regular update of the history database
which seems to penalise the most, if you have a big db, with many months of history - so i only keep a month - but depends on web usage.
their db seems inefficicent.