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Minimize data written to USB Stick when Firefox is closed ?

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December 11, 2005 - 8:24pm

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cm64

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Minimize data written to USB Stick when Firefox is closed ?

I am running PortableFirefox1.5 on a fairly old USB Memorystick. It works like a dream but when I shut down Firefox it can take up to 45 sec for all write activity to stop. Is there any way of reducing the writes required after Firefox is shutdown ? It becomes a bit of a nuisance when playing around with extensions/themes & having to stop & restart Firefox very often.

December 11, 2005 - 8:26pm

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John T. Haller

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Not really

You could turn off cookies. But there's not a whole lot else you can do. Portable apps are most dependent on drive speed. And an older, slower, drive will make them perform rather poorly... especially starting and stopping apps.

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December 11, 2005 - 8:30pm

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Thanks for the very quick

Thanks for the very quick reply. I guess I will just have to put up with it. I could always buy a new memory stick but this one is a 512MB & works well.

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