How to change Google Chrome’s Cache Size for better performance on Windows 10

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How to change Google Chrome’s Cache Size for better performance on Windows 10

 

Google Chrome is the world’s most used web browser by the market share it possesses. The main reason behind this is the fact that people feel Google Chrome is faster. This is due to many factors. One of the factors is the size of Cache it can store. Although other browsers can help a user by letting them manage their browser cache size from an interface, Google Chrome does not let the user do it. But this does not mean that it is not possible. In this article, we will be learning how to override the automatic management of cache size in Google Chrome by setting our manual limit.

Change Chrome Cache size on Windows 10

There is only one method that can be used to set and limit Google Chrome’s cache size.

 

To do that, first of all, start by launching Google Chrome.

 

Right-click on the icon for Google Chrome on the taskbar and again right click on the entry labeled as Google Chrome. Now click on Properties. It will open the Google Chrome Properties window.

 

Navigate to the tab labeled as Shortcut.

In the field called Target, type in the following after the whole address,

-disk-cache-size-<size in bytes>

For example, you can enter it as  -disk-cache-size-2147483648.

 

 

Here, 2147483648 is the size of the cache in bytes.

 

And, 2147483648 Bytes is equal to 2 Gigabytes.

 

Click on Apply and then click on OK for the limit to be set.

 

Alternatively, you can create a desktop icon which will adhere to this limit whenever you launch Google Chrome using it.

 

For that, start by launching Google Chrome.

 

Right click on the icon for Google Chrome on the taskbar and again right click on the entry labeled as Google Chrome. Now click on Properties. It will open the Google Chrome properties window.

 

Navigate to the tab labeled as Shortcut. Click on Open File Location.

 

It will open the location in File Explorer where the main executable file for Google Chrome is stored.

 

Right click on that file and click on Create Shortcut. It will give you a prompt saying-

 

 

“Windows can’t create a shortcut here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?”

Click on Yes.

 

You need only to do this if you do not have a Google Chrome shortcut on your Desktop. If you do, you can just start by following suggestion.

 

Navigate to the Desktop and right click on the Google Chrome shortcut. Now click on Properties.

 

It will open the Google Chrome properties window. Navigate to the tab labeled as Shortcut.

 

In the field called target, type in the following after the whole address

-disk-cache-size-<size in bytes>

 

 

For example, you can enter it as: -disk-cache-size-2147483648.

 

Here, 2147483648 is the size of the cache in bytes, and, 2147483648 Bytes is equal to 2 Gigabytes.

 

Click on Apply and then click on OK for the limit to be set.

 

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[stylemessiah]

Theres really no reasonable reason to raise the cache above the default, for one thing the caching algorithm removes the stalest content automagically, all you'll end up doing is making it harder for it to do its job and use more resources (cpu/disk time hunting through a larger cache) and you'll end up with more stale cached content...