Now that's a lot of cache

[Skimask]

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Description of the issue: Brave creates a ton of cache on Mac
How can this issue be reproduced? Take a look at the Brave Cache folder

1. Go to Finder
2. Go to Folder or use keyboard shortcut in Finder Shift + Command G, then type ~/Library/Caches in the popup window
3. Brave Software > Brave Browser > Cache > Cache Data

Expected result: I expect this folder to be empty when I clear Cache in the browser

Brave Version( check About Brave):
1.52.122 Chromium: 114.0.5735.110 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Additional Information:

That’s a lot of cache

Then below the gif shows the trash still counting the amount of files deleted there is so many…

After deleting all of these files when I open the Brave Browser again the files seem to come back.

Safari has no issue with deleting it’s cache within the web browser and keeping the folder empty, but it has issues running as a web browser.

[anon57438784]

That’s how Chromium cache works, you either accept that fact, use InPrivate Window or use Safari.
Brave is Chromium and Safari is not Chromium so it doesn’t make sense to compare each other when they are totally different, Blink stopped being a Webkit fork long time ago.

You deleting the files doesn’t really do much but forcing the browser re-download whatever files it is writing, which means you are unnecessarily wasting your disk lifespan because Brave/Chromium in normal window, will keep adding Cache files when you browse the web.

Brave recently added back a way to see cookies and other storages form websites, use it brave://settings/content/all just clean the ones that make sense.

You can also use utilities like: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html

But Cache stores JS, CSS, Fonts, images, JSON, the HTML… and yes they are thousands of files.