Optimize brave for better performance

Every little while, your  browser slows down with all the extensions and stuff installed, there is a program which can fix that issue, Speedyfox and its free too.

When you've downloaded it, and opened it,   click Speedyfox /Add Custom Profile and add this folder path.

C:\Users\youusername\AppData\Local\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data

then click Add and then Optimize. After a few seconds it'll do its thing and you'll be back to business.

Change Brave cache

Web browsers save their caches at predetermined locations by default, which can usually be changed quite easily from within the browsers’s Options. However, in Brave, there is no visible option to change the location of the cache. This doesn’t, however, mean that it can’t be done.

In this guide we’ll show you how to easily change the default save location of Brave’s cache.

Using Microsoft Windows 7, the default save location of Brave’s cache is:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Brave\User Data\Default\Cache

Here’s how to change it by adding just a few parameters to the Brave shortcut. In my case I have a ramdisk on A:/  so I’m going to use that, you can adjust it for whatever you like. Also I use OORegedit which is basically Regedit on steroids, but it will work with the regular one too.

1.       Locate a Brave shortcut (Desktop, Start Menu, Taskbar etc.), right-click it and select Properties.

2.      In the Target field append the following to the already present string:

--disk-cache-dir="A:/" --disk-cache-size=104857600

Replace the text in red to any directory you would make the new cache directory. Click OK to exit.

Next, Brave needs to be configured to use the newly defined cache folder for opening previously visited links in the history. For this,

1.       Type regedit in the Run command and click OK.

2.      Navigate to the following registry key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BraveHTML\shell\open\command

3.      In the right hand pane, the location of the EXE of Brave would be given. Right-click the entry and click on Modify.

4.      Append the following to the already written value of the registry key after the Brave.exe” part

--disk-cache-dir="A:/" --disk-cache-size=104857600

Note that the red directory location in this step should be identical to the one you specified in step #2 in the first section, otherwise Brave will not be able to load pages from the newly set cache.

The registry key value should now look something like this:

"C:\Users\Martin\AppData\Local\Google\Brave\Application\Brave.exe" --disk-cache-dir="A:/" --disk-cache-size=104857600 -- "%1"

Click OK and exit the Registry Editor.

Brave will now be configured to save cache at a new location and also retrieve previously loaded web pages from the new cache location as well. Restart Brave and for the changes to take effect.