Change browser cache location

By Nethru Limited (www.nethru.com)

Nowadays, a new computer will have at least 4GB RAM, sometimes may even have 8GB or 16GB RAM. Some people will use part of the RAM to setup a RAM disk. If you have a RAM disk, it may be a good idea to move your browser cache to the RAM disk in order to speed up when you are using your browser.

Google Chrome

Right click on your Chrome icon and update the target with –disk-cache-dir options like this.

chrome --disk-cache-dir="Z:ChromeCache"

Firefox

1. Open your Firefox
2. Input about:config in the URL bar
3. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!”
4. Right click -> New -> String
5. Input browser.cache.disk.parent_directory for preference name
6. Input Z:FirefoxCache for value
7. Restart your Firefox

Internet Explorer

1. Select Start button and Run
2. Type regedit
3. Find the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerUser Shell FoldersCache
4. Change the value to Z:IECache

That’s all the settings. Enjoy!