A very small script that attempts to stop Arc Browser from crashing so much.
Arc Browser is currently in a somewhat primitive state on Windows as this is being written, and has a very pesky habit of crashing for some reason every few hours. The assumed solution is to reinstall Arc, but this gets very annoying very fast. However, I stumbled upon a script that could be used to get Arc back to a working state, here's a link to the original post. It removes a directory that for some reason is very troublesome for Arc, even though Arc seems to use it the entire time it is running. This script I have made automates that process, and if Arc crashes, it can automatically restart it for you.
- Automatically removes the troublesome directory and any of its files
- Restarts Arc if it crashes, or is closed
To start the script, just use node fixarc.js. You need to have Node and NPM installed for this script to work. The script uses no dependencies that aren't already preinstalled with NPM. (The script only uses path, fs, os, and child_process (and any of their dependencies).)
You can configure FixArc to do certain things when it runs.
- Using the
-ror--rerunargument will set FixArc to automatically reopen Arc if it crashes. - Using the
-tor--timeargument with an integer succeeding it will change the interval of time (in milliseconds) that FixArc waits between removing the folder and, if set, reopening Arc. - Using the
-sor--set-defaultargument will save your arguments to a file calledconfig.jsonto use as the default the next time you run FixArc. - Using the
-oor--original-defaultwill use the original default arguments that have been programmed into the script (Interval set to 100, no rerun).