Firefox SSD , regular install or portable ?
does the regular installation of Firefox see my SSD as ram and lowers SSD life ? i use portable version for this reason for a few years now, was thinking those 16gb could work better how much of this is true,?
my pc looks like this:
windows7, soon W10 I5-3570k 16Gb ram ddr3 dualchannel GPU Sapphire R9 280 3Gb 384bit SSD- Samsung 830 - 256gb, marvel chip
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forgot to mention , i ordered another SSD, Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SATA-III
i'm thinking have windows on 100Gb partition of the EVO 500 rest 400Gb for games/media, and the 256gb SSD as storage
Not the Firefox installation directory sees the drive as RAM. It is best not to have the Firefox profile folder located on the SSD drive. The profile folder is by default on the OS system drive in the %AppData% folder.
- C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile>\
It it not a good idea that this data is stored on a SSD drive.
There is a lot of concern about SSD life on the internet. Here's a thread you could skim through:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/545laq/firefox_is_eating_your_ssd_here_is_how_to_fix_it/
Regarding your original question, Firefox's access to both RAM and hard drive/SSD storage is mediated by Windows, just as with any other application.
The location of the disk cache and other temporary files is what matters. I don't think that other files in the profile folder are updated that often, but don't know about local storage and SQLite files like places.sqlite (history).