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I just switched from Chrome to FF. The performance is close enough, and good enough for both, that it's a secondary consideration at this point. I switched bec

I just switched from Chrome to FF. The performance is close enough, and good enough for both, that it's a secondary consideration at this point. I switched because I got tired of hearing Chrome constantly accessing my hard drive. I wound up going through the list of Chrome switches here (http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_s...) to try to alleviate it. Some things helped but not to an acceptable level. I use W7. Using procmon I could see Chrome constantly re-reading keys from the registry and writing to temp files even though caching and pre-fetching were disabled. I was also was concerned for Chrome accessing my laptop SSD. Even though I couldn't hear it I could see the lifetime allotment of reads and writes being flushed.

rjh29 13y ago
On a similar note, my PC's hard drive starts making crazy noises as soon as Windows 7 goes into screensaver mode. I've turned off every disk-related option I can find and it's still doing... something. Maddeningly it stops as soon as the screensaver is interrupted. Linux is a lot more predictable in that regard...
- ericabiz 13y ago
  Probably the Windows indexing service. It's configured to run when you're not using your computer. You can turn it off and see if that stops the hard drive noises: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/disable-windows-search-indexer/914286d5-9485-49a9-a3df-f9516c9970cd http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-f...