Maybe its not your cat, could it be Firefox?
This applies to LINUX as well.
If you’re running an SSD and using Firefox as your browser, keep reading.

I’m going to skip all the who, what, where, why, when and just dig into what you need to do.

Here is how to correct the issue–that I didn’t explain but I left links at the bottom so you can read up on it.

1) Open Firefox and in the address bar (not the search bar), type in (not using the quotation marks) “about:config”, then hit enter.
2) Select the blue box that reads, “I’ll be careful, I promise!”
3) Search for, no quotation marks or hyphens, “browser.sessionstore.interval”
4) Double click it and replace the 15000 with a number that you choose from the below chart–I’m running it at 900000 that sets the backup writes to every 15 min which I may change to 30 min at some point.

Each tab you have open while using Firefox, will be saved/backed up every 15 seconds by default. To adjust that number, refer to the chart below.

Below I have calculated some general numbers for you to choose from for a quick Firefox edit.
NOTE: When adjusting the millisecond numbers in the Firefox settings, do not insert a comma or spaces, “number only” is the way it works.

Milliseconds to Minutes chart;

15,000 = .25 or 15 seconds
150,000 = 2.5 minutes
250,000 = 4.1 minutes
550,000 = 9.1 minutes
900,000 = 15 minutes
1,900,000 = 31.6 minutes

If you want to choose a different time option, then here is the link to the converter.

Information resources for further reading if you’re interested.

servethehome.com
pcper.com
davidtan.org

Have a nice day,

–heinz