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There are plenty of good browsers out there if Chrome isnt floating your boat anymore.

But a few people got in touch to say that the problem with Chrome is the caching.

Specifically, the way it caches JavaScript files that it comes across while youre browsing.

However, I got talking to a few people and discovered something rather strange -- Chrome doesnt offer a simple way to delete these files.

I dug around on both Windows and macOS and found the files in question.

On Windows they live at C:Users AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser DataDefaultCode CacheJs, while on macOS theyre at LibraryCachesGoogleChromeDefaultCacheJs.

I had a look-see into that folder, and theres a lot of files in there.

On my main workhorse MacBook Pro there was a whopping 124,000 files.

These files dated back to mid last year and range from a few hundred bytes to a few hundred kilobytes.

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Theyre very persistent.

UPDATE; apparently choosing to delete your entire browsing cache for the time range All time does delete these files, but that feels somewhat drastic).

Weird. Do these files slow down Chrome Well, there was only one way to find out, and that was to delete them.

And sure enough, Chrome felt a lot snappier after getting rid of them.

Hard to put a figure on how much faster, but I felt a noticeable improvement.

Having convinced myself that wiping these made a difference, I wanted to find out if there was a way to delete these files that didnt involve digging through the file system.

For all you Windows users out there, I found a way, but its kludgy.

It involves installing CCleaner Pro (which is not free), and installing a free third-party add-on called CCEnhancer and then using this to delete the cache.

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For Mac users out there, Im sorry but Ive not come across anything that will clean this cache.

Are there any downsides to wiping the cache Ive not come across any negatives, but I urge caution.

Also, whenever you go deleting files, theres a real danger that you delete the wrong thing and you end up in a world of hurt (doubly so if you dont have a backup).

And it seems that wiping this cache does improve the performance of Chrome somewhat.

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