Speed Up Your Browsing with Profile-Sync-Daemon

What if I told you that you could greatly speed up your browser while reducing the physical wear on your hard drive?  You'd call me a daft bugger I'd bet!  :-)

I found this application some weeks ago and recommend it, profile-sync-daemon on the AUR.  It symlinks your browser profile to /tmp which is a tmpfs (running in RAM), so the large amount of disk I/O that it generates is now in RAM rather than on your disk.  This is great for HDD as well as SSD - with speed increases up to six times taster. It supports a wide range of browsers including:

• Chromium
• Firefox
• Google Chome
• Midori
• Opera

Very easy to install, just edit (as root).

/etc/psd.conf

Setting USERS to a space delimited list of user accounts on this machine.

USERS="jeff"

Close your browsers, then enable and start it in systemd.

systemctl enable psd
systemctl start psd

You can see what just happened with parse.

profile-sync-daemon parse