Speed ​​up Chrome on Android

If you have noticed that on your Samsung Galaxy or in any case on any Android smartphone or tablet, the Google Chrome browser can become very slow compared to other installed browsers. If we are fond of this browser and do not want to change it with anyone else, in this guide we will show you some of the most effective tricks to speed up Chrome, so that you can use it at maximum speed whatever your Android smartphone is.
By carefully following the instructions we will be able to speed up the execution of some graphic elements within the Web pages, as well as the loading of the page (which can be used as an optional option), which will be speeded up by the compression that can be activated on Google servers.
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How to speed up Chrome on Android

We have collected below the only valid methods to speed up Chrome on Android. Let's try them all, so we can use this browser at full speed on any device.

Enable web page compression

One of the most effective and simplest methods to implement to speed up the loading of web pages on Chrome for Android involves the activation of the compression of the web pages: through the Google servers each page is compressed, so that it can be loaded faster on our device mobile.
In order to take advantage of this compression, we open Chrome on our smartphone or tablet with Android operating system, press on the three dots at the top right, go to the Settings menu then press on the Lite Mode menu.

By pressing the button at the top of the screen (which will switch from OFF to ON), we will activate the mode just described, which allows you to compress the Web pages full of content and then adapt them to display on a mobile screen. With this trick we will save up to 60 percent of data and the pages will load very quickly in any network condition (even on slower networks such as 3G networks).

Activate Reading mode

Another very effective trick to improve the reading of the Web pages and speed up the loading of the same involves the activation of the Reading Mode, available by default for all the pages on the Internet full of content, optimized only for computers.
There is no real button or option to activate: when we open a web page that is not optimized for mobile, we will see a bar appear at the bottom where we will be offered the simplified reading mode.

Pressing on this bar the page will be reloaded very quickly and all the components (images, text, graphics etc.) will be displayed in optimized mode for reading on the screen.

Change advanced Chrome settings on Android

To really speed up Chrome we will have to act from the advanced settings menu, well hidden from the eyes. We open our Chrome browser on Android, we tap on the address bar at the top, we type chrome: // flags and we press Enter or Enter on the screen keyboard.

The items that we advise you to modify on your Chrome for Android, so as to make it very fast, are:

1. # enable-parallel-downloading : setting this item to Enabled will speed up the download of files from websites, thanks to the use of more parallel downloads.
2. # enable-ntp-remote-suggestions : by setting this item to Disabled the suggested sites present in the browser home will be blocked, so as not to have more distractions.
3. # ignore-gpu-blacklist : setting this item to Enabled will allow the browser to access all the graphics capabilities of the phone, so that it can load pages faster. This item may slow down the execution of the app and other graphics, so it is better to test it thoroughly before deciding whether to leave it active or not (a lot depends on the type of CPU and GPU present on our phone).
4. # enable-gpu-rasterization : by setting this item to Enabled the browser will use the GPU of the phone to render the pages, thus speeding up the loading.
5. # enable-zero-copy : by setting this item to Enabled the browser will use the Zero Copy method to generate the web pages.
6. # enable-experimental-produtivity-features : by setting this item to Enabled the browser will enable all the advanced features, including also the new policies to increase the execution speed.
7. # disable-accelerated-video-decode : by setting this item to Disabled, the browser will use the phone's GPU to decode the videos present on any web page.

After each change, a restart is required in order for the changes to take effect. Since there are many entries, we recommend that you use the search bar at the top Search flags to be able to find all the advanced entries quickly.
If we notice problems after activating one or more items above, we can always return to the advanced settings page ( chrome: // flags ) and tap Reset all to default, so as to restore all the changes on the fly and return to have Google Chrome for Android running as just installed.

Conclusions

As we could see with a few simple tricks we can speed up Chrome on Android even if it is tremendously slow, using some modes already available in the classic settings of Chrome or by modifying "thoroughly" the browser settings, so as to obtain a snappy and fast app in the load any type of web page.
Other tricks and methods that we can use for Chrome can be seen in our guide to Cheats and main functions for Chrome on Android and iPhone / iPad .
If instead we notice that Chrome is too slow on our Android device, in another guide we have collected all the Best Android Browsers for smartphones and tablets, so that we can use one of the valid alternatives often faster than Chrome from every point of view.