

You can read more about our favorite Chrome flags here.

To enable this, type chrome://flags in the URL bar, then type Ctrl + F and search for “tab discarding.” When you see it, click the dropdown box, select “Enabled,” and restart Chrome. Instead of just closing those excess tabs, though, you can enable a Chrome flag that suspends tabs you’re not using, then re-enable them when you click them, saving on memory. The reason is because tabs that continue to run in the background continue to hog your system resources. With higher-resolution monitors capable of displaying more info on-screen, and the option of multiple desktops these days, why not? Over the years the amount of tabs we simultaneously leave open has ballooned into the double figures. Make sure the “Cached images and files” and “Cookies and other site data” boxes are ticked (and any other browsing data you want to clear), select “the beginning of time” in the dropdown at the top, then click “Clear Browsing Data”. In Chrome either press Ctrl + Shift + Del on your keyboard or type chrome://settings/clearBrowserDatainto the address bar.Ģ. To clear your cache, carry out the following steps:ġ. Clearing your cache can therefore help speed up Chrome. But if you don’t maintain it, it can get filled with outdated cache information for certain sites, which then prevents the up-to-date site information from taking its place. Your cache is generally designed to make pages load quicker by storing crucial information about them on your PC, then pulling it up each time you return to that page. Here are the best ways to speed up the already-speedy browser. But that doesn’t mean you can’t crank even more speed out of Chrome if you fancy it.
