Monday, November 21, 2016

How to restart google chrome fast and improve system performance ?

Most of the users use the Google Chrome as their default browser. While it is observed that, after opening multiple tabs in chrome browser, your chrome and the system slows down.

This is caused due to multiple ad-dons running in chrome and multiple pages open, eating up the system RAM (read only memory).

To make the system and chrome faster, the only solution comes to mind is uninstall the ad-dons or restart the chrome browser. which will free up the RAM space.

The way to restart chrome is to close the google chrome browser and open it from the desktop shortcut. Apart from this method, chrome has provided a special feature in the browser, to restart the chrome using the web url.

The url is to restart chrome is chrome://restart . Copy paste this url to your browsers address bard and hit enter, this will close the google chrome browser and re-open the same. The restart of the browser results in freeing up RAM space and making the system and browser faster.

This url can be added to the bookmarks and run whenever you feel the chrome or your system is slowing down.

To add this url to the chrome bookmark, please follow the below steps:
1. Open new tab in chrome browser
2.  Press Ctrl + D. This will open the below pop up window.












3. Click on Edit button. this will give you a below pop-up window.
























4. Rename the Name of your choice (use your creativity:-)). In my case i have renamed the Name to RestartChrome.

5. Paste the copied url in the URL box. chrome://restart

6. Done


This URL can be now access from your bookmarks menu of the chrome and will give you a one click restart and start feature of Google Chrome to free up RAM space instantly.

Chrome has many other such features which can be very helpful. e,g. chrome://quit/ to close the chrome or chrome://bookmarks/ to view all bookmarks. To have a look at such similar features of chrome browser, copy paste the below url to the address bar.

chrome://chrome-urls/

In case you need to check how much space your chrome browser is taking in the system RAM, Right click on your task bar and click on Task Manager. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open the task manager.

Once the task manager is open, go to Processes, Sort by Image Name and you can see the space consumed by Chrome.exe.

Thank you for reading.

Also read my posts on:
WhatsApp launched Video Calling Feature
What is the best free software for video conversion ?
How to convert files into PDF ?
What are the few free must have apps in your system ?

No comments:

Post a Comment