portable firefox, on a usb kill battery?

Will having portable firefox on a usb kill the battery? Im not sure if its safe to have firefox on a ssd so its like half half, some people say its good some dont. I have no idear. So i use a portable one just to check email and go forums and see whats good.

 

I'm confused on this part. Why wouldn't Firefox be ok on a SSD? I've been using it almost exclusively on my SSD for almost a year now.

 

I really am not sure I understand your post. Do you mean because it writes to cache? I don't see why having any specific browser would have any effect on your ssd. I say don't worry about it just run it off the ssd.

 

yea i ment because it writes cache friends who have an ssd said I should configure it to run on my ram or hdd not ssd.

 

If you can run it off RAM that would be ideal, otherwise don't worry about it, or at least I wouldn't.

 

okay well thanks for everything guys 1 more question. You know the sound when you startup or shutdown a comp is there a way to disable those sounds?

 

There should be, but honestly, I don't know how, a quick search on google should yield some answers.

 

Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Change Sound Effects

Select the sounds you want to get rid of and change it to "none", and uncheck the "Play Windows startup sound" box. This is for Windows 7.

If you're trying to get rid of the beeps on startup that don't involve windows, you'll probably have to check through the BIOS.

 

-> Use firefox from your SSD and be done with it.

Of course if yo bought a rubbish SSD then that will add a fair amount of wear... but then why did you buy junk in the first place?

USB thumb drives are slow and use the same type of memory, so you're not really getting any benefits from portable firefox except its portability - i.e. you can use it on any computer.

 

A USB thumb drive has LESS resilience to multiple read/write cycles than a normal SSD does. And an SSD is actually wonderfully optimized to work as a cache... Microsoft recommends putting your swap on an SSD if possible. Swap and cache have a low write, high-read access pattern which is exactly what an SSD is good at.

Don't listen to your friends. They don't know what they're talking about

 

Firefox will be better off run from Your SSD drive. I've used it for a short time off my USB thumb drive and it was so ridiculously slow that i could not cope with it.

 

thanks that made the windows startup sound and shutdown go away. thanks for everything guys.