If you aren't using
Google Chrome yet, you should be. When it comes to browser speed—and especially
JavaScript performance—Mozilla and Microsoft can't compete with Google. But Chrome can go even faster if you're willing
to make some adjustments under the hood.
To help with that
effort, we've gathered for your consideration a few of our favorite free Google
Chrome extensions and tweaks. Experience the power enhancements they provide,
and in a few days you'll wonder how you ever survived online with a bare-bones
browser.
Disable Anti-phishing
Filter if you’re a Seasoned User
While I wouldn’t
suggest this to everyone, you can disable the anti-phishing filter of Google
Chrome if you have basic knowledge of phishing websites and know how to avoid
and stop them from jeopardizing your internet presence. Disabling it is pretty
easy:
Wrench icon>
Options> Under the hood> Privacy> Uncheck the ‘Enable phishing and
malware protection’ option.
This will
considerably speed up Google Chrome by saving internet
bandwidth.
Disable Sending Usage
Statistics and Log files
Both of these data
don’t contribute much to your browsing experience. Most of the users don’t even
know about log files and what are statistics but cold numbers that anyone
hardly knows what to do with. So, by disabling log files, you stop Google
Chrome from keeping a tab on your online activity and free RAM space. You can
stop sending your usage statistics to Google by un-ticking the ‘Send usage data
to Google’ option in advance settings in Google chrome.
Extensions Make it
Slow
As much as you may
love the little extensions peppering your browser, ultimately it slows
down Google Chrome. When we come
across a shiny, new extension, we feel like we would use it every day, but
often we forget about it and it runs in the background slowing it down. You can
check if such extensions are using up too much memory by clicking on the wrench
menu beside the Address Bar and using the View Background Pages option. If you
find any extension that you haven’t been using recently (or will not, in the
future) then disable them.
Install FastestChrome
Remember how I was
rambling on about keeping your extensions to a minimum? Well, there’s one
extension you must have to help you have a better experience
with Chrome. It’s called FastestChrome.
FastestChrome comes
with features like endless pages loading, open searches in a new tab with
middle mouse click and automatically turns text URLs into links. It doesn’t
reduce the memory your Chrome browser takes up, but it make your usage
experience much faster and better.
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