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Why am I not able to install Firefox to a folder of my choosing?

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I run an SSD as my boot drive and install all of my programs on a separate drive. During the installation of Firefox I am not given the choice to direct the installation. Please tell me how I can get around this issue because SSD drives only have so many reads and wrights.

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I run an SSD as my boot drive and install all of my programs on a separate drive. During the installation of Firefox I am not given the choice to direct the installation. Please tell me how I can get around this issue because SSD drives only have so many reads and wrights. Thank you

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If you select Custom installation instead of the Standard one, you can select the installation folder. Refer to this KB article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/custom-installation-firefox-on-windows

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Firefox will still store your browsing data under your Windows user profile folder, normally:

C:\Users\username\

Have you relocated that folder to a different drive? I ask because there are likely to be many more read/write accesses to that folder than to the program files.

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No, I also didnt get an option to choose where to install it

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I dont get that prompt window. It just installs when i run it.

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Did you read the article? You need to download the "full" installer.

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You can find the full version of the current Firefox release (58.0.2) in all languages and all operating systems here: