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I'm running 11,4,402,265 on Firefox 14.0.1 and I would like to know if there is a way I can force Flash running in protected mode to not cache to disk. I want all content to run from memory, of which I have enough BTW - RAM is pretty cheap these days, and I'm usually not watching YT clips that go past 500MB of RAM so technically I'm set and working. It used to work fine with 11.2 when flash loaded in plugincontainer and I could set Firefox to cache entirely to RAM, but with this new protected mode it's not working as desired.

I'm looking for a setting in mms.cfg, registry, anywhere that forces Flash to use up RAM and not write its cache to disk.

RealSteel81 · Answer

Apparently there's no easy solution.There are some strange Firefox bugs a well. Setting to clear its cache at exit makes it so that Firefox has no cache folder and thus Flash is forced to use the Temp folder, again. Leaving Firefox to keep it's cache still makes plugincontainer to use use the Temp folder. Setting Flash in protected mode, sometimes it uses Temp\acro_rd_dir while other times just Temp.Anyway, moves whole local Temp to a RAM drive, disabled protected mode, left Firefox to accumulate its cache, and as a side note, some of the CPU cycles were due to EAV scanning the video, so I've added youtube to the exclusion list and regained some performance and saved some disk write cycles.It appears the only solution is to move the whole local Temp folder to a RAM Drive (from My Computer Properties > Advanced System Settings > Environment variables > User Variables).

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