Chromium is one of the fastest browsers out there. And here is a little tweak that will make the browsing experience even faster:
Putting the cache-directory into a ramdisk. This has been tested on Ubuntu 10.10 and Debian squeeze:
Create a folder where the Ramdisk shall be mounted in, and make it writable:
sudo mkdir -p /media/tmpfs
sudo chmod 777 /media/tmpfs
Put an new entry to the /etc/fstab to mount the ram-disk there on boot-up:
tmpfs /media/tmpfs tmpfs defaults,size=15% 0 0
the size of the ram-disk is 15% of your total Memory. Mount the ram-disk:
sudo mount -a
Now move the chromium cache folder to the ramdisk
rm -rf ~/.cache/chromium
ln -s /media/tmpfs ~/.cache/chromium
And done!
Now start chromium-browser and surf at the speed of light