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What it does?

  • Moves Brave Browser's cache to ramdisk, if not yet moved
  • Makes an empty directory for Brave in the ramdisk if the cache was already moved before
  • Makes Brave fast as hell

I have tested it on

  • macOS 10.15.3 Catalina on a hackintosh, MBP 15" mid 2012 and MBPr 15" late 2013

NOTICE

I based my solution on Chromium's cache moving and I noticed that the -f and -F for ln don't seem to have any effect on Catalina. All caches that use these flags don't work on Catalina for me, so I made a workaround for Brave. I'd be happy to do the same workaround for other browsers, but I didn't want to mix things together

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# Check what to do with brave
check_brave_cache()
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Thank you for the PR.
What if you simplify adding this browser by joining all the separate functions you did into one as it is done for other browsers, i.e chrome?

The ln behaviour should not be changing, it will break many things for them I suspect.

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I broke it up into several functions because I needed to do several more than once to prepare for previously-enabled cache. If you want me to do it I can make it a single function and... copy and paste some code

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And speaking of the ln behaviour: it cost me a lot of time to figure out the problem. I was not expecting it as system tools usually behave as expected

close_app "Brave Browser"
make_brave_dir
move_brave_cache
link_brave_dir
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consider replacing this line with line 225:

     /bin/ln -v -s "${USERRAMDISK}"/Brave-Browser ~/Library/Caches/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser 

it is used once only, does not needs to be a func

if user_response "${MSG_PROMPT_FOUND}" 'Brave'"${MSG_MOVE_CACHE}" ; then
close_app "Brave Browser"
make_brave_dir
move_brave_cache
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body of the function could be just added here.

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@jdarowski if you could address these 2 comments, I'm happy to merge the PR, LGTM otherwise.

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