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> It mentions that Firefox writes wayyyyy too much in the temp folder.

> > the amount of calls to VirtualProtect is currently very high

Calling VirtualProtect is not writing to the temp folder. The VirtualProtect call is to change the permissions of the in-memory pages. It should be an inexpensive system call (other than the cost of TLB flushes and/or shootdowns).



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