Disable Cache and/or Set Cache Size

[jhale]

In developer mode you can turn the cache off. Please make this ability available as a option in settings for all modes.

[LonM]

This is possible if the dev tools are enabled (under the network tab), but that requires opening dev tools on every page, which is not always ideal - such as if I am using an external application to do the debugging.

Would be nice to have as a per-site setting. I.e. disable the cache on sites I'm developing, but let me keep browsing as normal on other pages.

[Panino]

@LonM Hi, I'm on Linux and wanted to know if there's some like I can add to the file path that limits the cache size to a certain amount, like 300MB.
Or a way to make Vivaldi use more RAM? Those extra 4GB I added are being wasted.

[mib2berlin]

@Panino
Hi, to my knowledge there is no way to change the caching systen on Chromium browser.
You will find much more results if you search for Chrome cache, if you find something it should work for Vivaldi, too.

Linux is the master of memory management, you can check if power savings is enable, it should not:
chrome://settings/performance

Open 500 tabs on 5 windows, then you need the extra RAM.

Cheers, mib

[mib2berlin]

@sbernecchia
Hi, the superuser thread is 11 years old but one command line switch seems to work.

@Panino
Hi, you can try to use:
--disk-cache-size=N
N is in Bytes, I test 1024 and it cut the cache to ~1000 Bytes.
Makes not much sense to me, the cache is always faster than loading files and images over and over again.

If you want to save your SSD, I use SSD since ten years and the first one is still running, you cant break modern SSD anymore writing Terabytes.

Cheers, mib