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Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2015-05-31 · latest 2026-03-03

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  1. …further by ZRAM layered on top of all of it, it's not that important anymore. Especially when using https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon which puts the "OS-within-the-OS" (any relevant browser) into RAM too, or rather it's…
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2026-03-03 · in Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
  2. …ZRAM setup is usable by default. No fiddling necessary. With this stability I dared to activate https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon / https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon and never had any trouble with it so…
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-11-30 · in CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
  3. …FF was meant as satirical btw. With what I'm using it for, it doesn't lag. Maybe because of https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon mostly, and some other fine-tunings, which make it not touching the filesystem over and over again.…
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2025-07-19 · in Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
  4. …a RAM-backed tmpfs. PSD does more browsers, though. I wonder if PSD could work on macOS, too. [1]: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
    comment by ndegruchy · 2025-05-31 · in Show HN: Firefox from Ramdisk (macOS Only)
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    PSD: Symlinks browser profiles to RAM reducing HDD calls, speeding-up browsers
    story by nateb2022 · 2025-02-17 · 2 comments
  6. …, or something similar to it, if you're not using systemd. Edding for something more neutral: https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2023-12-11 · in Firefox Keeps Getting Faster
  7. …care about all the useless 'make work, make work!' anymore. Relax. Edit: While you're at it, deploy https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon / https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Profile-sync-daemon or something like that for FF.…
    comment by LargoLasskhyfv · 2023-11-01 · in Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly
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    Browser profiles dirs to RAM thus reducing SDD calls and speeding-up browsers
    story by r0xsh · 2023-05-22 · 1 comment
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    Profile-sync-daemon: move browser profiles from disk to RAM for fun and profit
    story by nateb2022 · 2023-04-12 · 0 comments
  10. …there's releases for Arch, Debian, etc. and it's even in the repositories. No need to add a ppa. https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon For Debian and co: $ apt-cache show profile-sync-daemon $ sudo apt-get install…
    comment by lucb1e · 2016-09-23 · in Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
  11. …to see what the max size is. The developer [1] is great - issues are resolved very quickly. [1] https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
    comment by lighttower · 2016-09-23 · in Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
  12. …up a tmpfs and symlink .cache to it. [1] https://launchpad.net/~graysky/+archive/ubuntu/utils [2] https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon EDIT: Add link, grammar EDIT2: Add link to source
    comment by lighttower · 2016-09-23 · in Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox
  13. …drives. Though I agree that most of these optimizations do not seem necessary on modern SSDs. [0] https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2015-05-31 · in SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux