Chrome Flags: Improve Chrome Performance with 10 Chrome Flags
Chrome seems laggy to most of people. This can be due to low PC specifications such as RAM, Processor, Storage option, etc. But we can not do anything to overcome this. Instead what if we take most of the present condition of Chrome. There are few experimental options in Chrome that will help you to make changes in the behavior of chrome. These are marked with FLAGS. And popularly known as CHROME FLAGS. You can toggle options ON and OFF present in Chrome Flags.
These are similar to developer options that we see in Android Devices. Many of us have also used Developer Options in Android to improve the User Experience of Android Phone.
What is Chrome Flags?
Google Chrome flags are a variety of options which is experimental. Experimental means options that you can try out, most of them are unstable, or they are going to be official in upcoming updates. You can have fun with these options on every platform Mac, Windows, Android iOS. Just paste chrome://flags. This will get you to a page containing all experimental features.
1. Parallel Downloading
As the name suggests this flag in chrome will help in parallel downloading of stuff. This will be really helpful, in this, you will able to run multiple download process at the same time. Here multiple processes are created from one download process. This makes the downloading process faster. If you have used IDM(Internet Download Manager), this works in a similar way splitting your download into pieces. Put this into the URL #enable-parallel-downloading.
2. Smooth Scrolling
Among all chrome flags, one must enable this one. This flag works the same way as its name suggests. You will have a smooth scrolling animation, reducing shattering in content while scrolling. We tried this chrome flag and it really works great. You must also try this if you feel shattering while viewing content. To access this put this into your URL #smooth-scrolling
3. Horizontal Tab Switcher (Android)
This chrome flag will help you to switch the old and boring vertical scroll of chrome tabs to horizontal format. This convenient for those people who have a habit of keeping multiple tabs open on chrome just like us. You can access any number of tabs easily seeing some of the content. To enable this chrome flag put this into your URL #enable-horizontal-tab-switcher
4. Password Generation
This flag will help you to generate a strong password whenever you are signing into a service. More specifically, whenever you are Signing Up for a service. This comes handy when you need a really hard password that anyone would take centuries to guess. To enable this put this into your URL #automatic-password-generation
5. Block Downloads
Among all chrome flags, this flag will help you to maintain your security while downloading a file. This will block any suspicious file from being downloaded if there are chances of execution of some code by the file. You can give this a try. To enable this follow this link #disallow-unsafe-http-downloads
6. Scroll Anchor Serialization
This option has been there in the official version of chrome. But don’t know why Google decided to remove this and moved it to the list of chrome flags. What this flag of chrome does for Android is that it saves the position of the last scroll position on a webpage. When you return to the page it continues from where you left. This is a similar feature as we get on Microsoft Office. This is really useful for those who love to read novels online. They must find this a useful tool. To test this chrome flag for android follow this link #enable-scroll-anchor-serialization. This is mainly for phones but you can also enable this on a desktop.
7. Graphics enhancements
These flags options claim to use H/W encoding instead of S/W encoding. Prioritize GPU for rendering. You should play these on your own and find out if there is any difference. We hardly felt any difference.
Accelerated 2D Canvas : #disable-accelerated-2d-canvas
Overriding S/W Rendering List : #ignore-gpu-blacklist
8. Tab Grouping
This chrome flag will help you to better manage your tabs. This is handy for those who keep many tabs opened at the same time. They can easily group similar tabs together and ease there working status. According to us, this is beneficial for small screens i.e. Android and iOS devices or more precisely phones. To play with this option follow this link #tab-groups
9. Tab Hover Card
You might have used Microsoft Edge (For downloading Chrome). But if you have used for a while. You must be knowing, we get a preview of tabs when we hover over it. Similiar type of feature is given by this chrome flag. This helps in getting to know information about the tab without opening the tab. But Microsoft Edge is better in this department. To test this out follow the link #tab-hover-cards
10. QUIC Experimental Protocol
Want a faster and stable connection? This chrome flag is best for you. Google is working on a new protocol QUIC protocol. This new protocol is still under development. It is a mixture of TCP and UDP providing a better connection such as speed and stability. Along with this also provide better security. When we are talking about TCP and UDP they take multiple trips or you can say connections to make the connection stable and secure. In contrast, QUIC takes only one single connection request to finish all the things. Hence making the system faster, stable and secure. To try this out go with this link #enable-quic
These are all chrome flags that you can try and have a better chromium experience. Do share your own chrome flag that you personally use in case we missed it out in the list.
List of Chrome Flags that We Recommend
Among this list of chrome flags if you are wondering which chrome flag you should try. So, we would help you out with this. Chrome Flags that you should try for the first time that will surely help you out.
Smooth Scroll
Tab Grouping
Parallel Downloading
QUIC Protocol
These are some chrome flags that you should give a try and will be beneficial for you as well.
