Forcing Google Chrome to open with predefined settings

Yes. You can also add the --media-cache-size=1, as well.

 

Disabling your cache can slow browsing. Just fyi. If you're having problems with a lot of disk access you can consider setting up a RAMDisk or just clearing your cache once in a while.

 

That's not my experience. And, I'm on a 128 Kbps connection for quite some time now. No slow browsing, at all.

 

Thank you!

Will try these tonight and report back.

Cheers.

 

It does slow it down a little bit, depending where you are going. I have an SSD drive, and once I found out how much I/O chrome was doing, I used both the command line parameter to limit the cache size as well as locate it to another drive (non SSD). I also used the RAMdisk approach as well. I didn't mind the RAMdisk, but because of what I do with my system, I opted for the cache on a normal hdd.

Sul.

 

So would the correct path be?

Code:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disk-cache-size=1 --media-cache-size=1

Thanks again. Its been a busy couple of days.

 

Yes, that would be it. Google Chrome installs to the user space.

If you have a shortcut in the Desktop, for example, you'd just have to right-click it, go to Properties - Target and add --disk-cache-size=1 --media-cache-size=1 after chrome.exe. Just make sure you don't forget the blank space between chrome.exe and --disk-cache-size=1 --media-cache-size=1

 

Awesome that's exactly what I did and then added to to the taskbar. I dont use shortcuts on my desktop. Too much clutter.

Will post back hopefully soon with results. Thanks so much.

 

Hopefully, you won't experience any slowness. I don't. And, as I mentioned before I've been using a 128 kbps Internet connection.

But, each system will for sure react differently.

 

True and thanks for the reminder. I just tried it here at work with no ill effects. The true test will be when I get home.

One thing that is annoying with Chrome is when I do happen to watch any Comcast related videos, I see an advertisement video first. (Im using Adblock as well).

Now with Firefox and Adblock, no such thing happens. I guess that's just the way Chrome is? It is a Google browser after all and they use adverts for money. Do they some how prevent you from from blocking advert videos?

 

Update: Tried those settings at home and can still hear the hdd thrashing like before. Its not terrible but annoying nonetheless. Firefox does not behave this way.

Maybe I will try Chromium just to compare.

Thanks again for the help!

 

Did you also try to create a new Cache folder and point to there, as I've shown in one of my previous posts?

Code:

chrome.exe --disk-cache-dir="<new_cache_directory>\Cache" --disk-cache-size=1

Maybe a new folder is required? Try that.

 

I guess the directory has to be a sub-folder of where Chome is installed?

 

Anywhere. Imagine you place it at the Desktop, you'd need to point to there --disk-cache-dir="C:\Users\username\Desktop\Cache".

 

Cool will try this tonight.

Many thanks!