 Hello everybody! In today's video, you will see how to improve performance of your internet browser and make it work faster without lagging. I will show you some tips with Google Chrome, but they will work fine with any other browser as well. If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browsing history. Headman software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments, under the videos or articles. Let's begin with the basic stuff, even though you may know it without watching this video. The first thing to consider is the specifications of your computer. I mean, if your PC is relatively weak by today's standards, but you install the latest resource-consuming software with more extensions and ads on the top, you shouldn't be surprised to see freezes and lags. So here are a few essential recommendations for people using old or low-end computers. Avoid installing too many extensions. Keep only the ones that you really need. Try not to open many tabs at once. In fact, you can get any browser to the lagging point by opening just a dozen or two of tabs. Clean your browser and operating system regularly. A bit later I will show you how to do it. Don't install unnecessary plugins, for example, Adblock, which is designed to keep ads away. Okay, on the one hand, this plugin removes ads, so your computer doesn't have to waste its resources on loading and displaying them. But on the other hand, before a web page is loaded, the plugin has to scan it and remove the ads, which makes the browser work slower than you expect. Keep on watching this video, and I will show you how to solve this problem. Also, a conventional hard disk has recently become the true bottleneck for the computer's performance. And guess what? Most users have computers with the only hard disk being the HDD type. One more thing, any browser has a cache, and it is stored on the hard disk, so many cases of lagging actually result from having a disk that's too slow. The point is that SSDs, unlike the conventional hard disks, have no moving parts, platters and hats. That's why their data transfer rate is considerably higher. Today, the best and most effective way to speed up your computer is by switching to an SSD. So, if you are planning an upgrade, I recommend replacing the good old HDD with its more advanced successor, the SSD. For example, in my computer, disk C is an SSD, and disk D is a traditional HDD storage. Let's check their read and write speeds with a special tool – crystal disk mark. The difference is obvious. That is why you should install the operating system and applications to the SSD. And that means your browser too. Probably this could be the only component to upgrade, while you can leave the old HDD as the second disk in your computer and use it to keep your files. However, an internet browser may be lagging not only because your computer is a low-end one. This misfortune sometimes happens to high-end rigs as well. Then, how to find out why the browser is so slow? Use the Task Manager in your browser to see what exactly slows it down. In Windows Task Manager, you can see how much your processor is loaded, how much memory your browser is using in general, and by separate tabs. Few people know that almost every browser also has its own Task Manager, so you can see how much resources are consumed by the browser plugins and separate tabs. For example, to open a Task Manager in Chrome, when the browser window is open, press Shift plus Escape to start the built-in Task Manager. You can also open it using the main menu. Tools – Task Manager When the Task Manager is running, you can see the list of open tabs and how much they use the system memory and the processor of your computer. If you notice that a certain tab consumes considerable processor resources, there must be some undesirable activity going on. It could be a malicious process, for example. If you like, you can right-click anywhere on the Task Manager to display more columns with additional information. Generally speaking, never mind the fact that almost every website is going to use over 100 megabytes of system memory, on condition that you have modules of sufficient memory sites installed in your computer. It's absolutely okay, and things are meant to be exactly that way to ensure better browser performance. However, if there is a website consuming an outstanding amount of system memory, it's always a good idea to have a closer look at maybe-and-the-brushes. The column GPU memory in the browser Task Manager displays hardware graphics acceleration. If this process puts a lot of pressure on the CPU, it should look strange. Something might be wrong with the graphics driver, or you can try disabling hardware graphics acceleration in the browser settings. You can also try this method if the browser is lagging when you scroll the page down, that is, it takes a long time to display all the elements of the page and so on. The Task Manager of your browser can also display the load generated by browser extensions. Sometimes it happens that the extension you need every day is the actual source of all lags. However, sometimes looking at the Task Manager cannot help you to find out what slows it down so much. That's why I'm going to give you some general recommendations and consider several most widespread things to make a browser feel so sluggish. Use the tabs you don't need. The more tabs you open, the more system memory is used, so try to never keep open the tabs you are not going to use. 2. Disable the unnecessary extensions It seems to be a simple and obvious measure. The more extensions are enabled, the slower is your browser, so it's better to disable or even remove the extensions you don't use every day, and so only those that you can't do without. 3. The browser cache Cache is a special folder on your computer where the browser saves certain elements of the webpages you visit. Over time, the size of this folder can grow enormously, especially if it is not limited in the browser settings. In its turn, the browser is trying to save as many elements as possible for the websites you visit regularly. Theoretically, it can help to load webpages more quickly, but if your internet connection is fast enough and your storage is not too big, it's better to clean the oversized cache. The browser works much slower when it has to address the cache all the time and search necessary elements among thousands of entries. Open your browser settings to find options for cleaning history, cookies and cache. By default, most browsers use the key combination Ctrl, Shift, Fast Delete. It works in Opera, Chrome and Firefox. When you press this combination, a window will appear where you can choose what should be cleaned. Select the data to be removed and the time range. Clear the data. 4. Plugins and extensions The best advice would be to never install extensions you don't need. Keeping numerous extensions for the reason what if I need it one day doesn't seem wise at all. Usually, you can remove unnecessary extensions just by opening a certain page in the browser settings, selecting a specific extension and uninstalling it. Usually, this section requires you to restart the browser so that the extension is removed without a trace. 5. Cleaning your Windows In addition to cleaning the browser cache, it is also recommended to clean your operating system from time to time. Also, optimizing the operating system will certainly improve your computer's performance. There's quite a number of videos on this topic in our channel, so I will leave the links to some of them in the description below. 6. Viruses Advertisements and strange-looking processes Advertising elements have to be mentioned in any case. They tend to integrate themselves into your browser after installation of some small-sized app. Too often, many users click Next, Next, without noticing those small checkboxes, but unless you take them off, you actually agree to install all the ad elements you don't actually need. As a result, your computer ends up full of all kinds of adware or malware that slows down virtually everything – your browser, your internet connection speed, and your computer in general. What are the general symptoms suggesting that your browser has been infected? Ads appear suddenly on websites where they never did before – all kinds of teasers, links, and so on. New tabs opening on their own. Usually these contain work offers, adult content websites, etc. Offers to send an SMS to unlock access to various websites, especially social networks. New buttons and icons appearing in the browser's toolbar In any of these cases, I recommend checking your browser for viruses, advertisement elements and other junk stuff. You can see how to do it by watching corresponding videos in our channel, and you will find the links in the description. However, if you are an advanced user and you are sure that you don't have the issues I have just mentioned, but you do feel your browser should work faster, all right, here are some tricks to accelerate it even more. One of them is to change the browser cache size. So, as long as we realize the main bottleneck is the cache located on the hard disk, it is evident that by reducing the cache size, you can make the browser address the hard disk less often and hence respond faster to your actions. In order to reduce cache size for Chrome, Yandex browser, and other products based on Chromium, just add the following value to the browser's start line. The easiest way to do it is by editing the shortcut that you used to start the browser. The cache size in this value is given in bytes. For example, the value you can see is 100 megabytes. The less value is set, the less will the browser depend on the hard disk performance. You can even try and set the minimal cache size one byte. In fact, it means you are going to proceed without cache at all, which is actually the same as cleaning the cache after each browsing session. To change the browser cache size in Chrome, as in my case, right-click on the shortcut that you used to start the browser. Add all properties, shortcut, add the value I have specified into the field target. The figure actually sets the cache size in bytes. Click Apply, OK? However, there is a chance that some websites may suffer from slow response after such modification, especially in concerns frequently visited websites with complicated design patterns. That is why it is better to set the cache size where at least some data could fit, for example, 10 megabytes. And for the slowest of hard disks, it would be the happy median. The next method is to put cache into the random access memory. For this ready to push it further and get the most of the browser, there is one more thing to try. Create a special disk in the system memory and put the folder containing browser cache under that disk. It really works. Your RAM operates at speeds many times higher than a solid-state drive, to say nothing of the good old HDD. Not surprisingly, though, that we do have a special video on the topic, watch it by following the link in the description. Yet you can't win anything by just changing the cache folder. The trick is to have it in the random access memory. There is no way you can do it with Windows tools as users are not supposed to do anything to the RAM. That is why you will need some extra software. All of that you can see in a special video, and you can find the links in the description as before. However, you should remember that the contents of such RAM disk is going to be removed as soon as you shut down your computer. Hopefully, this video will be useful for those novice and advanced users. And that is all for now. If you want to see more stuff like this, hit the like button and subscribe to Head One Software. Thank you for watching and good luck.