Storage Solutions Firefox is eating your SSD (?) and fix

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https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

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After some digging, I found out that this behavior is controlled by a parameter that you can access through typing “about:config” in the address bar. This parameter is called: —browser.sessionstore.interval

It is set to 15 seconds by default. In my case, I reset it to a more sane (at least for me) 30 minutes. Since then, I’m only seeing about 2GB written to disk when my workstation is left idle, which still feels like a lot but is 5 times less than before.
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Party Monger said:
Is this resolved in current updates or do we still ahve to do this manually
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15000 is still the default value.
OP can disable this if session restore is not required.
I tried to see where all this GBs of data is stored but I couldn't find it. I am wondering if we could get FF to write to another drive/partition instead of the system partition. Anyone has an answer to that?
 
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