How to increase browser buffer size for better performance

The browser cache is the data storage area that your computer uses to speed up the process of loading a website, increasing its size will make the next page load better.

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With Google Chrome
Firefox

The browser cache stores resources of downloaded webpages such as images, videos, javascript, CSS, and so on. The next time the user visits the page, those resources are available there to help the site load quickly. much more.

If the browser cache is full, caching will no longer occur and a range of problems may occur, such as slower or incomplete pages loading. To solve this problem, users can delete all the information in the cache, but doing so will speed up the computer but the page loading speed will slow down. Instead, users can increase the browser buffer size. With two popular browsers, Chrome and Firefox, users can follow the instructions below.

With Google Chrome

Google Chrome does not provide a way for users to easily change the browser cache size, but users can resolve if they are using Chrome on Windows as follows:

- Right-click the Google Chrome shortcut on the desktop and select Properties.

- Click the Shortcut tab.

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Manipulate buffer size increase for Google Chrome browser

- In the Target field, add --disk-cache-size = 1073741824 (with the number representing the size of the buffer the user wants to calculate in bytes, 1 kilobyte = 1,024 bytes) at the end of the path. Note that users must leave a space after the quotation marks at the end of existing text before adding this information.

- Click OK.

Note: This tip will work for most Chromium-based browsers.

Firefox

Unlike Chrome, the Mozilla Firefox browser has a user interface to access the size of the buffer and change if necessary. Here is how to do it.

- Open the Firefox browser.

- Enter about: config in the address bar. Hit Enter.

- Accept the warnings.

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Accept the warning that appears

- Scroll down the list in alphabetical order to find (or use the search feature) lock browser.cache.disk.smart_size.enabled.

- Click the toggle switch to change the Value value from True to False.

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Convert Value from True to False

- Restart Firefox.

- Now search for browser.cache.disk.capacity.

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Access the key and enter the buffer you want to allocate

- Click the pencil at the end of the row and enter the maximum size the user wants before restarting Firefox again.

That's it, it's an easy way to increase the browser cache size. Users should also consider creating different browser profiles for safer browsing.

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Samuel Daniel

Update 17 May 2020

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