trimechee
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2 years ago It says
"Chrome seems to generate the same operations as well
Early experiments show a similar behavior for Chrome, which also generates around 1GB per hour, rounding up to around 24GB per day."
"Those [SSD] drives can be rated for about 20GB of writes per day and Firefox [or Chrome] alone might be using more than half of that," Bobik warns users using SSD drives.
"Adjust This Setting Before Firefox Wears Down Your SSD Drive Google Chrome seems to exhibit the same behavior"
Solution :
take inspiration from brave browser which is open source and apparently doesn't have this kind of disk ssd problem
https://community.brave.com/t/a-geeky-noob-tells-you-why-he-uses-brave-browser/102876
"It might seem stupid. But this browser doesn’t scan my whole hard drive right? Chrome’s “Software Reporter Tool” does that. It scans and tests every .exe file.
And, this browser doesn’t keep writing data onto my hard drive when idle, right? Firefox does that all the time. Keep Firefox open for 24 hrs and it will write more than 10GB of data. And I don’t know how to stop Firefox from doing that. And I love to keep browsers open all the time. So these two problems are really annoying. My last cheap SSD broke sooner because of this?" "
Alex313031
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bbt-dev
Hello, i discouver this article of 2016, this problems seems to affect also chromium browsers, it wil be great to save our hard disk and battery to add an option to disable session restore or increase session store intervals, we can do that with firefox but we can't do this with chrome browser, i have made search, i found solution but is complicated , may be it can help, please add option to disable completely session restore, many don't need this feature, we just use browser to watch some videos.....
Thank you in advance !
"Firefox (& Chrome) are eating our SSD's?!" "Chrome writing to disk every 15 secs" "Heavy SSD Writes Firefox is eating your SSD"
"Firefox and Chrome can shorten SSD lifetime September 26, 2016
Firefox and Chrome have been found to continuously write so much data that it might affect the durability of SSDs. Both browsers write an incredible amount of data to disk, even when idle.
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This was discovered by researcher Sergei Bobik who used the software SSDLife to monitor how much data was read and written on his system. He found both browsers write a lot of data as they continuously make a backup of themselves"
https://myce.wiki/news/firefox-chrome-can-shorten-ssd-lifetime-80534/
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=235651
https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/
"reduced to using Chrome, below is what is going on inside Firefox, it says Chrome does the same thing. I dont need this garbage of Chrome writing the whole page to my micro SD every 15 seconds. Has anybody found, useing a work around for Chrome, when I looked on the net I could not find anything about Chrome, it was all FF."
"by Nominal Animal Before switching to a laptop with a really, really fast SSD, I used to keep my active browser profiles on a ram disk (tmpfs).
Essentially, when inactive, your Firefox profile can be stored in a tarball (~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename.default.tar). When active, the contents of the tarball are extracted to a temporary directory on a tmpfs mount (ramdisk), with the ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename.default pointing to that directory. The only real limitation of this approach is that you'll want to set the maximum cache size to something small; I happily used 0, 32 and 64 megabytes for years. (The no-cache one I used on a 2009 Acer Aspire One A110L minilaptop. It still works fine for casual web browsing.)
There are two approaches to maintaining such Firefox profiles.
First approach is to construct it at login, and deconstruct/repack it at logout. This is managed via a session manager script, and varies slightly between session managers. (I tried to get the necessary hooks for doing this in a transparent, safe manner to GDM, but got fed up with the lack of interest, and switched to LightDM.) The downside is that the profile is in memory even when you don't have a browser open, and if you keep yourself logged in all the time, the tarball version of the profile never gets updated.
Second approach is to customize or interpose /usr/bin/firefox (or /usr/bin/firefox-esr). It is a launcher shell script for Firefox. In it, the exec $MOZ_LIBDIR/$MOZ_APP_NAME "$@" causes the script to replace itself with the actual Firefox binary. If you edit the script, or use your own copy of the script, with the exec removed, the shell will remain in memory while the browser is still running. (In this case, I recommend using dash as the shell, if possible, for minimal resource use.) Before running the browser binary proper, the scriptlet checks if the session symlink points to a valid directory. If not, it sets it up. After the browser binary exits, the script tests if there are no more instances left (ps -o pid= -C firefox or ps -o pid= -C firefox-esr), and if not, re-tars the profile, and removes the temporary profile directory. (I preferred to use sync to ensure the data hits the disk, and notify-send to pop up a notification whenever the profile was safely stored on disk. That way, after making a number of new bookmarks or such, all I needed to do was to close and reopen the browser windows, to be sure they were safely stored on disk.)
For further information, search for firefox profile tmpfs and/or firefox profile ram with your preferred web search engine. Top
Gee wiss nominal animal, thats a long answer. I was asking about chrome. Go to 'firefox 55 crashing' to see what the experts say to do if you are using a solid drive.
The approach I used with Firefox years ago works fine for chrome, too."
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=29810