How to speed up Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer by moving their cache folders to a USB drive or an SD Card.
USB drive or SD Card (class 10 only)
- Create folders:
- chrcache for Chrome cache
- ffcache for Firefox cache
- ie for Internet Explorer Cache
Google Chrome
- Close all open Chrome tabs and windows
- Right click your Chrome shortcut (the one you use to open the browser), select Properties
- In the Target window, move your cursor to the end of the path, after chrome.exe
- Type --disk-cache-dir="E:\Chrcache" (it might be D: or F: or...) Make sure there is no trailing slash
- you can also add --disk-cache-size=104857600 . These changes the location of the Google Chrome cache to d:\chcrache, and the limit of the cache to 100 Megabytes.
- Click OK
- Click the shortcut to launch Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
- Type about:config into the address bar, accept the warning ("I'll be careful, I promise!")
- Right click > New > String
- Type browser.cache.disk.parent_directory into the box and press OK
- Type the path of your BrowserCache directory -- E:\ffcache (where 'E' might be another letter); press OK
- Close all open Firefox tabs and windows
- Open the browser again
- Tools, Options, Advanced, Network, tick Override Automatic Cache Management, 80MB limit
Internet Explorer
- Tools – Internet Options – under ‘Browsing History’ section choose ‘Settings’
Click ‘Move folder…’ and provide the new location, e.g. d:\Temp\IE
Click ‘Move folder…’ and provide the new location, e.g. d:\Temp\IE
Notes:
- 8GB SD card / USB drive
- --- Create a 4GB Readyboost disk (click here)
- --- Leave the empty space for cache folders.
- If you use i3, i5 or i7 with 4GB of RAM or more, you don't need to move your cache folders to a USB drive.
- The above settings are recommended for those who use Pentium 4 and Atom cpu with 4GB of RAM or less.
More information:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/11/10/how-to-move-the-firefox-or-chrome-cache-to-a-ram-disk-and-speed/3
http://artykul8.com/2011/06/moving-browser-cache-folder/
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/10/19/how-to-change-google-chromes-cache-location-and-size/
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