Mounting Chrome cache in memory

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:00:00 +0000

As seen in my Ubuntu 12.04 installation post, I use a script to keep the Chrome cache in RAM.

I found this tip somewhere (don’t recall where) and have been using it for some time now.

Mounting Chrome cache in memory will give you the speed of RAM vs. the speed of an hard drive.

Do you have any more tips like this?

Script

Create the script:

1vi ~/bin/chrome_tmp_cache.sh

Add the following to the script:

1#!/bin/bash
2if test -d /tmp/chrome; then
3 exit 0
4else
5 rm -r ~/.cache/google-chrome
6 mkdir /tmp/chrome
7 ln -s /tmp/chrome ~/.cache/google-chrome
8fi

Change the script permissions:

1chmod +x bin/chrome_tmp_cache.sh

Add the script to the Startup Applications:

1Name: Chrome Cache
2Command: /home/<user>/bin/chrome_tmp_cache.sh
3Comment: Move Chrome cache to /tmp

FavApps: Chromium Browser

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:10:00 +0100

Ubuntu Software Center

Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. Chromium serves as a base for Google Chrome, which is Chromium rebranded (name and logo) with very few additions such as usage tracking and an auto-updater system.

I’ve been using Chrome and Chromium for quite some time. Probably since Google launched Chrome.

Chrome on paapereira.xyz

Mounting Chrome cache in memory

Script

FavApps: Chromium Browser