Evicting the Squatters in Your Home Directory - Getting Rid of Browser Caches

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@hendersj wrote:

I’m wondering if this is going to help resolve an issue I’ve noticed recently in Chrome - sites showing old certificates that are no longer served up by the site.

There’s one sub-directory that’s been historically notorious to produce odd browser behavior, named “GPUCache”. It’s down in the the users ~/.config sub-dir path. (and not just for some browsers… or ~/.var… for browsers installed with Discover).

Just search in these openSUSE forums for “GPUCache” and you’ll see numerous posts about it.

Here’s a Reply link I posted over 2 years ago that shows the command to execute to find the GPUCache sub-dirs, plus a command to execute to quickly remove those sub-dirs (those sub-dirs will be re-created at the next execution of the browser … use the rm command shown at your own risk )

Chromium and chromium based browsers (Vivaldi) not displaying content correctly

I had a similar issue recently with Chrome, Chrome Beta, Brave … no doubt Chromium will have it too. This fix works for me. For each affected app, I had to delete the associated GPUCache sub-directory. There is quite a few to delete, search for them like this find ~/ -type d -name GPUCache (in the users home directory) They can all be deleted in one fell swoop with: find ~/ -type d -name GPUCache -exec rm -rf {} + … but do it at your own risk. I actually renamed them to “GPUCache–ho…