I’m running ubuntu-eee on my new Asus Eee 901.\u00a0 And Firefox 3.0 was horrible on it.\u00a0 You’d load a page, and scrolling up and down would pause frequently with a jittery, jerky motion.\u00a0 It was so annoying that I experimented with Opera and Epiphany as replacements.\u00a0 Both fine browsers, but I hated being without add-ins like Adblock Plus and Foxmarks.\u00a0 Read on to find out how to fix it…<\/p>\n
So how to fix it?<\/p>\n
The Eee comes with two SSD drives – the 4GB system drive and the other SSD (in my case I ordered the 16GB one).\u00a0 The secondary SSD is much slower than the system SSD.<\/p>\n
Typically (as in my case) when installing Linux, you’d mount root (\/) on the 4GB system SSD, and \/home on the bigger (but slower) SSD.<\/p>\n
Firefox’s settings directory is stored under ~\/.mozilla.\u00a0 It writes a lot of stuff there – caches, phishing checks, offline storage etc.\u00a0 And apparently Firefox 3 does a lot more of this than before.\u00a0 So the obvious solution, given this information, is to move your ~\/.mozilla directory onto the faster system SSD.\u00a0 Here’s how I did it:<\/p>\n
sudo mkdir \/usr\/share\/my_stuff<\/p>\n
sudo chmod 777 \/usr\/share\/my_stuff<\/p>\n
cd \/usr\/share\/my_stuff<\/p>\n
mv ~\/.mozilla .<\/p>\n
cd ~<\/p>\n
ln -s \/usr\/share\/my_stuff\/.mozilla .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My .mozilla directory is now on the faster SSD and the Firefox jitter has disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m running ubuntu-eee on my new Asus Eee 901.\u00a0 And Firefox 3.0 was horrible on it.\u00a0 You’d load a page, and scrolling up and down would pause frequently with a jittery, jerky motion.\u00a0 It was so annoying that I experimented with Opera and Epiphany as replacements.\u00a0 Both fine browsers, but I hated being without add-ins … <\/p>\n