Brave creates too many temp files continuously harassing the hard drive with read write access about every two seconds even while the browser is minimized and does not have focus… I checked this via Process Monitor.
Windows 10 machine.
Brave ver 1.78.102 chromium 136.0.7103.113
The temp files are (4 directories found so far)
1/
C:\Users***\AppData\Local\Temp
The files are named similar to this eg:
11e4ba1f-831d-410f-929a-20d6858ab15d.tmp
Also hundreds of 0 byte folders named similar to this :
chrome_url_fetcher_6588_1854698865
If I cannot find a solution (very quickly) to stop this continuous read write harassment which is contributing to the eventual early failure of my solid state drive I will be switching back to FireFox which does not exhibit this obnoxious behavior.
End of story.
Brave is also creating tmp files in two other directories, I had found and delete these files two days ago.. since then js directory has over three thousand , the other has only 91 … at the rate this is going Brave will have ended the read/write life of my SS drive in less than a year.
Obnoxious, distasteful, how can this be progress..?
Again, Firefox does not display this unacceptable juvenile behavior.
Another obnoxious behavior just observed, going to check the version Brave started update without giving me a chance to say yes, no or cancel.
Unacceptable terrorist tactics..!
The codecache WASM activity, is a JavaScript V8 problem. I am guessing that there may be a JavaScript V8 memory leak.
IIRC, There is a Brave Browser JavaScript V8 setting that can be disabled. Search for that setting and disable it.
Clear as much cache, cookies, etc as you can.
In the Brave Browser > Developer Tools > Network window, look around for the Disable Cache switch and enable that.
For testing, also disable all extensions.
Exit / Quit everything and Restart the computer. Test issue.
@Mattches - maybe a runaway JavaScript V8 issue with a burr under the V8 saddle. Meaning, JV8 is not the source of the issue, but very unsettled by whatever is the actual issue.
When a bot is detected, Turnstile uses “proof of work” to instruct the browser to waste computer resources, for example by executing useless code on the CPU or filling up memory in an attempt to reduce the number of requests emitted per second by each physical machine running a bot.
theres “code cache” folder and “cache_data” folder with tons of $hit every page visit.
This is unacceptable much too much writing to disk getting fedup and ready to totally blacklist brave from my computer.
well since nobody knows I deleted all four files and brave works snappily…
My thoughts were if brave fooks up with those files gone I will just uninstal and move on.
You do not have to “redo all your windows.” Simply create a new Profile and use it for a test purpose → visit some websites and see, if the deluge of files and folders occurs for that new Profile.
(I’m a Linux user)
If you have the opportunity to put your temp files in RAMDisk, this will accelerate your browser and free your disk space, it’s working fine in Linux, I don’t know how to proceed with Windows.
This works and keeps the two brave-browser cache folders (code cache\js, cache_data) somewhat clean but watching process monitor confirms that the files are still created but deleted immediately… this abomination of creating and deleting tons of files must go since its only wearing away my drive.
Why cant we have the option to disable cache totally, no creating and deleting immediately, and let us decide if we want it enabled ??
In the appdata/temp folder its still creating a $hitload of chrome_url_fetcher_**** files and
fbdbd7e5-7cd3-4696-805c-1b5d9087c661.tmp files.
This is only a few locations since I am finding more files being created as I watch process monitor eg; IndexedDB folder.
From what I read I can set my two temp folders to RamDisk but what about all the other sneaky locations that Brave is dumping temp files into, eg appdata/local.
Reading all the various posts here it seems as though the predominant advice is to keep cleaning the folders .. this is unacceptable, I prefer to ditch Brave if that is the solution.
Re you created a new Profile. The screenshots that you provided, were of the problematic sub-folders of your Default profile . . . NOT of the new Profile’s sub-folders.
To use a new BB user Profile, you need to exit / quit everything; and preferably, restart the computer.
Select that newly created profile that you see in the sample window (PS. I would keep that Show on startup switch enabled.):
