Thread: Your browser is battering your SSD

Firefox, Chrome and Edge have a feature to allow you to recover from a crashed session.

The problem is that, in order to keep this current, they both write huge amounts of data to disk, 20Gb to 30Gb a day in many cases (at least I know it does in the first two). Obviously this is not ideal if your profile is saved on an SSD.

In Firefox, you can either change the location of where they write these session restores (if you have a good old fashioned HDD), or if you aren't that fussed, you can change the interval or disable it completely.

I'll leave it to a Firefox user to post the details.

In Chrome there is no (longer) a way of disabling or managing this feature; however it seems Incognito mode does not use it.

In Edge, you can configure it in the registry as per this link:

How to Stop Edge Browser From Restoring Tabs After a Crash

Where did you get the idea that SSD are not meant to be written to?

What if i dont have an SSD?

Originally Posted by Dillinger

What if i dont have an SSD?

It's still a performance hit.

Firefox alone backs up your open tabs every 15 seconds whether they've changed or not.

Firefox doesn't need some registry jiggery pokery to turn it off though.

I thought you would be raving over vivaldi rather than edge...

One benefit to unix/linux is no registry binary bollox...plain old text file configs....

Originally Posted by Troy

Firefox doesn't need some registry jiggery pokery to turn it off though.

I thought you would be raving over vivaldi rather than edge...

One benefit to unix/linux is no registry binary bollox...plain old text file configs....

No, in Firefox you can just tweak the options.

Chrome is the easiest. Just add a parameter to make it incognito.

Edge is the usual Microsoft bollix.

What's the point with Edge ? is that a different rendering engine from Internet Explorer ? looks like they keep making the same mistakes as IE