By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
We all have thousands of reasons to love Google Chrome, but it's inevitable that it has some flaws. It may become slow and get into occupying when too many memories after a long time to use. This is particularly obvious in Windows system because each page tab takes up a separate process in Google Chrome. As we tend to install some extensions in Chrome and no awareness of regularly cleaning the cache, cookies, and history. As time goes on, Google Chrome becomes more and more lagging. Therefore, it is necessary to make it speedy. In this article, we will explain six ways to speed up Google Chrome.
Tips: To see detail process of the task in Google Chrome, click on More menu from the upper-right corner and navigate to More toolsTask manager. In the other way, press Shift + Esc to open Google Chrome Task manager window.
Install the latest version of Google Chrome which is in small memory usage and more stable. To check the version of Chrome, you can click on three vertical dots at the upper-right corner then navigate to Help About Google Chrome. You can download and install the latest version. By default, Chrome turns on the auto-update function. If Chrome does not update itself, you can change the value in Registry Editor to enable chrome from auto-updating.
Extensions can also take up Google Chrome running memory. To disable extensions which you hardly use can quicken up Chrome.
Step 1: Type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar and press Enter key.
Step 2: Choose the unused extension and uncheck the box of Enable at the end of the line.
If you open more than ten tabs at the same time, your Google Chrome may work slowly or even get into stuck especially those computers with low configuration. Under this circumstance, you can close the unusable tab to accelerate Chrome browser. It worked fast but it was only a temporary solution. Therefore you can try more solution to make Chrome faster in this article.
While we use Chrome to surf the internet, it will automatically generate corresponding cookies, histories, cache and other profile data. This will slow your Chrome down if you never clean up.
Step 1: Use Ctrl + H key to open History window, and click on Clear browser data tab in the left sidebar.
Step 2: When the window pops up, check the box as the image below. Click the down arrow at the top-right corner and select the beginning of time from the dropdown list. Click on CLEAR BROWSING DATA button to cut the fat of Chrome.
Enable Chrome's prefetch feature will make it speed up. This is because Chrome can prefetch the relate website data before you visit them, so when you enter the webpage it is exact from the perfecting data not download from the internet at that time. This exit privacy risks, so you can choose to enable or disable Google Chrome the prefetch resources option.
Step 1: Click on More button from the top-right corner, select settings in the drop-down list.
Step 2: Expand Advanced to the bottom of the page. Scroll down and turn the toggle button on, which is behind Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly option.
Google Chrome allows users to change experimental features as you want. Just input "chrome://flags/" and Enter. Press Ctrl + R key, then you can see the search box at the upper right corner. Thus you can change the features in the following.
Note: You just have to select a few of the following feature to make changes, not all of them.
Input Number of raster threads in the search box at the top-right corner and hit Enter. It is automatic positioning to the option. Click the down arrow and choose 4 from the option. Tap on RELAUNCH NOW button to restart your Google Chrome.
Enable Fast tab/window close can run a tab's handler independently of the GUI. Set it to Enable and click on the blue button at the lower left corner. Your changes will take effect the next time you relaunch Chrome browser.
Set Smooth Scrolling can animate smoothly when scrolling page content. Type Smooth Scrolling and change Smooth Scrolling value from Default to Enable. The feature makes webpage see more quick and fluent.
Find out Automatic Tab Discarding, and you can exchange the value by Default into Enable. When your PC is in low memory, tabs get automatically discarded from memory.
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