You can make Google Chrome faster by applying some tips listed in this guide. Please note that some tips might not work on your Chrome version or system.
Speed Up Google Chrome
As I wrote before, Google Chrome is the fastest web browser now available on the market. That is because they have a pretty good browser engine.Alternatively, you can always try to speed up your internet connection instead.
So, let’s go to show you how to speed up your Google Chrome web browser – starting now.
Remove Heavy Extensions and Apps
Google Extensions and Apps may highly affect your web browsing experience – especially if you have a lot of them installed on your Google Chrome.Some Extensions and Apps constantly work in the background, making your browser load much slower and consuming unnecessary memory and CPU resources of your computer.
Google Task Manager under Tools > Task Manager or (Shift+ESC) will help you find out which extension or an app uses a lot of memory and CPU resources, here is mine screenshot:
Google Chrome Task Manager show you which Extension and App uses too much out of computer resources.
Alternatively, you can type about:memory in your Chrome address bar to see current memory measurement of your Google Chrome. Giving out some pretty decent information about memory usage of your web browser.
Use your RAM Memory for Chrome Cache
A web cache is a specialized mechanism for the temporary storage, or caching of web documents on your own computer. Google Chrome (and other browsers) uses cache to serve you with faster access to the websites you regularly visit.A cache files are stored on your computer RAM, instead of HDD or SDD drive. Which makes it much faster to reach for Chrome, which may give you a good performance boost in rendering pages on Google Chrome.
First, we need to create a RAM Disk. This little software is going to help you do that. Download and install that software now. After installation open this software and click on the green cross to add new mounted disk on your RAM memory.
Fill out these fields to setup your first RAM Disk.
Screenshot Legend:Yellow: Set the size of your RAM Disk (recommended 256 MB or more);
Green: Set drive letter (any unused latter you want);
Blue: Set RAM Disk file-system. Recommended is FAT if you setup disks with less than 4GB in size;
Pink: Create folders in your RAM Disk. Type in BrowserCache in this form.
After this, your RAM Disk is going to be mounted upon each computer boot. Now, let’s setup Google Chrome to work with this drive, instead of default HDD location.
Type in switches right behind your Google Chrome main target location in your shortcut.
To do that, Right-click on your Chrome’s shortcut and go to Properties from this menu. We need to add this switch to our Google Chrome shortcut:
–disk-cache-dir=”G:BrowserCache” –disk-cache-size=209715200
Values colored in RED need to be customized.
The first one, in this case the letter G is the actual letter of our RAM Disk. If you are not sure which letter your RAM Disk is, ether open RAM Disk software or go to your computer main screen.
The second value is the disk cache size. We need to set this up to be lower than our actual RAM Disk size in general. This value above is displayed in bytes and it means our disk cache size is exactly 200 Megabytes in size.
To properly convert Megabytes to Bytes, all you need to do is to go to Google and type for example the below syntax:
512 mb in bytes
And you will get the exact value you might use in our switch above. The more memory you have, the more you could spare for RAM Disk.
If you have done this properly, restart Google Chrome browser and enter it again. You will soon see that your RAM Disk is filling out with a temporary cache data from Chrome.
Use Default Chrome Settings
In order to speed up Google Chrome web browser, you may also try with some integrated features of this browser. First, I would recommend you to go to Tools > SettingsOn this page type in Send in the search field and check out (if it is checked) this option below:
Check out the option which automatically send usage stats and crash reports to Google.
Additionally, Enable these options in your about:flags window:Override software rendering List (Enable);
GPU compositing on all pages (Enable);
Threaded compositing (Enable);
If any option above is supported and disabled, enable it to speed up your Google Chrome rendering of pages.