Speed Up Chrome on Windows or OS X [Tips & Tricks]

Google Chrome is one of the best browser that Google has offered to the world, with its ability to load almost every webpage available over the Internet! But Google Chrome does lag most of the times on Windows and even on OS X which embarrasses the users with low configuration of Hardware.Many of you might be searching solutions to Speed Up Google Chrome and hence enjoy the faster Google Chrome on Windows or OS X. So you are finally here on the right post wherein you will find How To Speed Up Google Chrome with very few and simple steps.

One of the easy and the lol solution to Speed Up Chrome on Windows or OS X is Closing Unused Tabs, 😛 Although this might be easiest way to speed Google Chrome up and its a true fact too. But i guess we don’t always have unnecessary tabs to close every time we browse web via Google Chrome. Other Solutions to Speed Up Chrome are as follows :

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1. Disable Unused/Unnecessary Extensions :

Chrome comes with inbuilt extensions that keeps on running as soon as you open Google Chrome. So one simple way to speed up chrome is Disabling Google Chrome Extensions. One can do the same by :

1. Open Chrome, hit the menu button three dashes form in the upper right
2. Select Settings> Extension card switch
3. Uncheck Enable if you want to disable the extension
4. Click the trash icon to remove completely from the Chrome extension
5. Restart Chrome

2. Disable Unnecessary Plugins

Another feature of Google Chrome that many of the Chrome users on Windows or Mac Os X users did not knew till now is Google Chrome Plugins! A few basic plugin are Flash, Silverlight, IDM, Real Player, Microsoft Office etc. Disabling the plugins will release RAM of the PC and hence will enhance the Chrome to load pages much faster. So one can also disable Google Chrome Plugins in order to Speed Up Chrome on Windows or OS X to do so, one can follow :

1. Open Chrome and navigate to plugins by typing  chrome: // plugins  in the address bar.
2. Click Disable over the plugins you do not want to use!
3. Note: turning off Flash, Silverlight can affect the downloads site, such as a number of video sites will no longer run.When necessary, Switch them ON by going back to chrome: // plugins and enabling the disabled plugin!

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3. Setting Hidden Options / Flags in Google Chrome

This set of options are hardly visible to the users that use Chrome browser only for the sake of Internet Browsing! But trust me, it have lots of things to do which can really increase the speed of Google Chrome by many folds. All these hidden features of Google Chrome can be accessed by typing chrome: // flags in the address bar.There are several options that we will use to make Chrome faster as follows (in order to find the option, press Control or Command + F, type the phrase looking for): Some of the Best Google Chrome Tweaks Are : 

1. Maximum Tiles : Basically this feature will increase the amount of RAM that is allowed to use Chrome (the default Chrome can only use 128MB for web browsing). If you have abundant RAM, please activate it. Select 512 and restart the browser.

2.Number of raster threads : If you have a condition or image Chrome loads web pages too slow, you can change it from the default option to the 3 or 4.

3. SPDY / 4 : This is a new protocol help load pages website appear on our computer quickly over.Currently many websites Google SPDY application, you will see that after enabling SPDY / 4, the download speed will be improved significantly. With most of the remaining web, you will not notice the obvious difference.

4. WebSocket Implementation : This feature involves undertake web traffic. You should turn it up a bit to improve page loading speed of Chrome.

5. Scroll Accelerated Overflow : This feature will help us roll smoother web pages, especially with the site or very long posts. It works by matching site content into a class for us to see, so that the mouse is easier to roll.

6. Check for known conflicts : Turning on this feature, Chrome checks to see whether the site you are taking may cause conflicts which could cause the browser to crash or not. If yes, Chrome will warn you before. Pretty good. Note: after selecting the option on, do not forget to restart Chrome by scrolling down the page, select “relaunch Now”.

This is not all, other temporary solutions to speed up Chrome on OS X or Windows Includes Clearing Cache, Cookies and Browsing History from time to time. This can be achieved by 

1. Press the menu button in the upper right corner of the browser
2. Select Settings> Settings tab> scroll down the page> Show advanced settings
3. Under Privacy, select the “Clear browsing data”
4. Note: do not do too often, you should only do routine a few months at a time, otherwise the cache feature will not promote accelerated effects of its web browser

Last but not the least solution to speed up Google Chrome is by regularly update Google Chrome. This can be easily done by going to Menu button> About Chrome. The browser will automatically check and download the new version if there is, then finished the relaunch button to restart.

This is all. Now you will have a blazing fast Google Chrome Browser for Windows and OS X. Image Credits to tinhte. Do not forget to subscribe to the website in order to receive many other important updates!