How to improve the performance of browsers with NVRAM

NVRAM provides the opportunities to improve the performance of applications as well as system software. In this paper, schemes for improving the user-perceived performance of browsers by using NVRAM are presented. We first define the user-perceived performance of browsers as two metrics: browser launch time and page loading time. The browser launch time could be minimized by caching the displayed frame buffer data in the fast NVRAM and thus reducing the I/O and processing time required for browser launch. The page loading time could be also reduced by preloading the web pages that can be revisited soon in the NVRAM. Through implementation on open source browser, we show that our schemes significantly improve both the browser launch time and the page loading time.