You can make chrome faster by applying the following settings: Click the options button and select settings. Chrome PDF Viewer: It is used to view PDF files in your browser itself. If you want you can keep this plugin. Chrome Remote Desktop Viewer: This plugin is used to remotely control other.
Browser Slow? How to Make Chrome Fast Again
Google Chrome is great. It is fast, stable, has tons of extensions and it is easy to use. However, with time if you feel like it is not working the way it used to work, you are not alone.
Tons of people say that their Chrome Browser is becoming bloated and slow by time, making it painful to use and forcing it them to look for alternatives. It is normal. Sometimes it is your fault, you browse too much but don’t clean your PC or you install too many Add-ons or extensions.
Sometimes it is not you. Your PC may be infected with some nasty. Adware, malware, PUPs and other stuff may make your PC slow (not just the google Chrome)
Follow this simple 10 Minute guide to make your web-diving buttery smooth again.
Fixing Chrome
Don’t have the time? You can reset Google Chrome to its default settings. Open the Hamberger menu and click on Settings.
From the next screen, select Show advanced options.
At the end, you will find a button to Reset Google Chrome to its default settings.
Please keep in mind that it will delete all your Data, Saved passwords, and bookmarks too.
Remove The Extensions (That you no longer use)
Chrome has tons of great extensions and we have already covered some great Google Chrome extensions in past. However, too many of them can make your browsing like hell. The affext performance and consume memeory and therefore you should only keep the extensions that you use.
Using more than one extensions for one task think can affect performance too.
To remove them, open Settings in Google Chrome and click on extensions on the left side of the screen. From here you can Deactivate or Remove any installed Chrome extension.
Remove Unnecessary Chrome Apps
Unlike browser extensions, Chrome Apps are mostly capable of running offline and they are bigger in size. Some of them run in the background even if Chrome is not running. surprisingly, some of them can be removed from the extensions screen. But, most are not visible on that screen.
To check the number of installed extensions and remove any of them Open a new tab and Click on Apps located just below the Back button of Chrome. You can find a list of all installed apps in here. To remove any app Right-Click on it and select Remove from Chrome option.
If interested, you can see how much space does the app consumes in your computer by selecting App info in the Right Click menu.
Clear the cache files and other junk files
Cache files are actually stored to make web browsing faster for you. These are data saved from websites on your computer. Cache files are useful at loading the same web page again.
The other important things are cookies, these are essentially some small files who store your user settings for a website.
To clean these head to your User history by Pressing CTRL+H and clear browsing Data.
On the new dialog, select all the type of stuff and Time selection drop down menu select From the beginning of time
after you made sure that you have checked all necessary boxes hit the clear Browsing Data button.
Check your PC for malware, Adware, and PUP
If you are too lazy to check through every screen of an installer or you don’t hesitate in borrowing stuff fro internet, chances are that you have some PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) or some malware or some Adware in your PC. Apart from making the computer insecure, they also ruin your web browsing experience via annoying Ads, popups, and toolbars.
There are tons of free and paid antivirus and antimalware on the internet. I recommend Avast Free Antivirus as it is cheap and it has a strong protection against antivirus.
For the second opinion, you can check Malwarebytes Antimalware. It is also free for on demand scan and the program is easy to use and navigate.
To search your PC for installed Crapware such as PUPs and adware, you can check AdwCleaner or BitDefender Adware Removal Tool. Both of them are free to use.
I am pretty sure that the above steps will make your Google Chrome perforam better. If you have any other adwise or suggestion, don’t forget to drop it via comments.
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How you can make google chrome faster & stable in Mac OS. This topic will help you to gain more speed to chrome in mac by disabling & controlling extensions, apps, plugins and data history. Also these tips help you to reduce the global problem of chrome which is: the hunger for memory.What you are about to read in this topic:
- Problem and solution for chrome extension & apps, to gain more chrome speed.
- The connections between chrome plugins & google chrome helper.
- What is google chrome helper.
- How to run plugins manually with your choose in every web page.
- How to clear browsing history.
- Conclusion.
Chrome Extensions & Apps
The problems with extensions & Apps in chrome are:
- They eat memory, rather than chrome tabs or it self.
- They don't close when you exit chrome, unless you force chrome to quit.
- If you have many extensions or some apps installed they make chrome starting heavy and slow.
- Low the number of installed extensions, and uninstall none use. From chrome://extensions/.
- Try to use a method to manage chrome extensions, and enable what you want to use in the right moment.
Chrome Plugins
Plugins always have been a problem in many cases, especially flash plugin. They miss with google chrome helper and make it eating more memory and cpu useage. If you don't familiar with 'google chrome helper' read the next section. Check your plugins page in chrome and disable unused, from chrome://plugins/. or if you don't want to disable plugins permanently jump to 'run plugin in chrome manually' header.
Google Chrome Helper
What it does? Every active extensions & plugins in chrome, even the active in background counts, goes in your system ram as a task named 'google chrome helper'. That is not a problem! It's just a way how chrome handling plugins and other things in Mac OS. However, the problem is when some plugins or extensions get glitch or mess up, then you will find 'google chrome helper' eating your CPU and Memory, Sometimes using too much cpu like taking 90%! If you have any problem with google chrome helper try to ran plugins manually, as the next header explain.
Run Plugins in Chrome Manually
Sometimes plugins not function properly and cases many system issues like flash in chrome makes many problems especially eating your memory & cpu. Also when opening a webpage contains flashs that will make chrome very slow. But disabling flash entirely is bad for user surf experiences, because sometimes you ended with the need to enabling it to view some content. Therefore here are simple method to controlling when you want to active flash or other plugin in any webpage:- Go to google Settings, from chrome://settings/.
- Scroll down until you see 'Show advanced settings...' and click it.
- In 'Privacy' section click 'Content settings...' button.
- Scroll down until you see 'Plugins' and choose 'Let me choose when to run plugin content' and click Done.
Every time you open a webpage that contains flash or other plugins this image will show up:
Asking you to enable the plugin by holding Control key with a mouse click to activate it, or clicking on it by right click then choose 'Run This Plugin'.
Clear Browsing History
Deleting browser history can make chrome fresh & faster, just try it once a while. To do that:
- Go to google Settings, from chrome://settings/.
- Scroll down until you see 'Show advanced settings...' and click it.
- In 'Privacy' section click 'Clear browsing data...' button.
- Choose 'from the beginning of time' and remember to check all checkboxes.
- Hit 'Clear browsing data' button.
Conclusion
Having too many extensions, apps, and plugins in chrome can make it really slow. Lowering the number of how much extensions & apps installed can help you gain more speed and light to your system. In the other hands, plugins have less issues except flash plugin which is the major of slow in many cases, former method above activate plugins by manual can help you a lot with flash issues & of course other plugin as well, and make webpage load fast. Have another tip? please share it with me.