I like to share my brand new cleaned up script which is based on an ugly one which i used for months. I have very slow hdd and the cpu is also old. So, my idea is to run Pale Moon from ramdisk. And it works as expected: everything is more smoother now. So if you use a such old machine like me, it's worth to try.
Other improvenet is unzipping all files and use them directly from ram without always unzipping them. So all the extensions and omni.ja are unzipped on startup - this also increased speed on my slow 2.2ghz.
Yes, it's syncing back the profile to hdd in every 6 minutes (can be configured at top of file), so this problem is already solved.
And how much does it cost? About 140-400mb of ram based on your configuration. With gtk2 + basic gstreamer libs it eats ~240mb for me. If you don't use gstreamer it can be also disabled and save ram. But remember: when you actively use Pale Moon then the required files are in page cache, so storing all of them is not too much overhead. Other advantage because of this: Pale Moon will never be dropped from pagecache, because ramfs is equivalent to pagecache, so it responds immediately when you switch back from other task.
Any feedback is welcomed.
Download from: https://github.com/zaza42/pmram
