Everyone may have noticed that Google chrome may slows down or even crashes. Do you know why this happens? Unnecessary plugins, extensions and browsing data makes your browser slow down or make it crash. So how you gonna fix this. This article takes you from whole process to fix this problem. In this article I will show how to disable plugins and extensions, also how to clear your browsing data to speed up your browser and prevent it from crashing.
1) How To Disable Plugins:
When we install chrome browser, By default many unnecessary plugins are installed. These plugins helps chrome browser to process special type of data but this is actually no use for our daily life surfing. Some of the plugins that are installed when you install chrome browser are Chrome Remote Desktop Viewer, Silverlight , Widevine Content Decryption Module, Chrome PDF Viewer, Native Client, Windows LiveĀ Photo Gallery. These plugins are not even needed for our daily surfing. You can disable these plugins. To Disable plugins type ' about:plugins ' in your address bar of chrome.
This will open up the list of plugins installed on your browser.
After this click on disable plugins which are not required. Just do not disable Adobe Flash Player plugin because many websites use this plugin to play videos. You can re enable any plugin whenever you want.
2) How To Disable Extensions:
Extensions are the small programs that add additional functionality to your browser. These are sometimes more useful. But if install many extensions on your browser it may affect your browser speed.You can easily remove any extensions from your browser without uninstalling it. You just need to disable it. To do so Go to chrome://settings/ hit enter then Click on extension.
Once you click on extension you will see following window:
To disable any extension just uncheck the enable check box. You can re enable any extension whenever you need.
3) How to Delete Browsing History:
When you browse on web, your browser stores lot of information about your browsing such as url's , coockies and also cashes some data to speed up. But storing more data may lead to slow down your browsing speed. So to delete your browsing history go to setting. or type " chrome://history " in your Address bar.
Once you click on history button you will see following window :
To delete all browsing data click on "Clear browsing data". You will be prompted with various options to delete browsing data. select all option to delete complete data. It will delete all the history including cookies also.
To delete items selectively click on check boxes of the particular website and then click on " remove selected items". This will delete the respective items that your were selected.
Hope this article helps you. Do comment your queries.....
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