Experiment in making Pale Moon 32 bit run faster on Windows

[suzyne]

This is something I tried because I was curious if it would make any difference. Subjectively, it did make the 32 bit version of Pale Moon run faster and smoother.

This is only a broad outline of what I did, and I am not recommending this to anyone, but showing it in case it is interesting, while being totally aware that this isn't a new or original idea.

Got the freeware version of Radeon RAMDisk.

http://www.radeonramdisk.com/software_downloads.php

and made a 2G (probably bigger than necessary) disk called M:

Used 7-zip to make an archive of my profile folder, which I named PMProfile.7z and put it in the Pale Moon program folder where palemoon.exe lives. Made a batch file (also put in the Pale Moon program folder which must be writable) named pm.bat with these lines:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe x -r -oM:\PMProfile PMProfile.7z *.*
Palemoon.exe -no-remote -profile M:\PMProfile
del PMProfile.7z
C:\Program Files (x86)\7-Zip\7z.exe a -r PMProfile.7z M:\PMProfile\*

Now Pale Moon uses the profile on the RAMDisk, and archives an updated copy of the profile when Pale Moon closes.

Note, running Pale Moon from this batch file means you must not Restart the browser at any time! Otherwise, the PMProfile.7z file gets messed up.

Extra tip, in about:config set the 

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browser.cache.disk.parent_directory

value to the M:\TEMP folder that the RAMDisk automatically creates.