How to set Firefox Cache Location

[vomacka]

I read this article on setting a new cache location folder for Firefox.

http://essayweb.net/miscellany/firefox_cache.shtml

I would like to do this for my FF25 version on my primary C:\ drive. I have no other drives available.

Is there any benefit (Faster cache access time?) to making a new FF cache folder?

Thanks for the help.

Scott

 

[cliffordcooley]

Changing folder location will only make things faster, if the new location is on a faster drive.

 

[DelJo63]

Read the article carefully. He's using PARTITIONS on one drive and it was done for management, not speed per se. Yes, *IF* you have more than one physical drive *AND* they have different access, r/w ratings, you might be able to measure a miniscule difference in timings.

BTW: Long know issue in system performance evaluation is that there is a point at which adding a larger cache becomes a detriment and starts to degrade performance. WHY? Because it takes too much time to search a large cache to only result in a no-cache-hit result.