Will firefox portable decrease the life of your usb stick? Since web browsers freq write to the disk to store temporary web files and USB sticks have a limited times it can be written to.
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The short answer is yes, just as every program will. Firefox portable has options like the cache and history disabled by default, however, for this very reason. By keeping these disabled there are many, many less write cycles performed by Firefox to your flash drive.
not by much.
Firefox Portable minimizes the amount of reads/writes needed by disabling history and the cache.
Edit: Damn, vamp1r beat me to it
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