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Do you spend endless hours using web browsers like Google Chrome and Apple Safari? Well, it turns out that even small impacts on your browsing performance can result in a significant difference in your productivity. The time adding up over weeks, months, and even years can really take its toll on your day-to-day tasks.
Just as your computer overall, your web browser can also become slower over time as you start to do more with it. That may mean having more extensions installed or a higher amount of data cached to your computer’s local storage—resulting in a sluggish browsing experience.
Thankfully, you don’t just have to accept this increasing sluggishness, as there are actually ways to bring back the zippy performance that your browser had when you first started using it. Some of these tricks are specific to one browser, but most of them work across the board.
Installing updates
Updates should be mostly handled automatically. Credit: David Nield
First things first—you need to ensure that you’re always running the latest version of your preferred web browser. This is so critical that it’s now quite difficult to let your browser get out of date, in fact, without being hassled to install the upgrade.
By running the latest code, you’re essentially giving yourself the most recent features and the most up-to-date optimizations, while keeping yourself safeguarded against security vulnerabilities and software bugs. It also means that your browser won’t get tripped up by any newer web technologies or complex web apps that it needs to work with, so you stay ahead of the curve.
Updates will be largely handled automatically, but you can check manually too. In Chrome, click the three dots (top right), then Help and About Google Chrome; in Edge, click the three dots (top right), then Help and Feedback and About Microsoft Edge. For Firefox on Windows, click the three horizontal lines (top right), then Help and About Firefox and in Firefox on macOS, open the Firefox menu and choose About Firefox.
When it comes to Safari, the updates for the browser are bundled in with updates for macOS. To make sure macOS is up to date, open the Apple menu, click System Settings, then choose General and Software Update.
Auditing extensions
Managing extensions in Google Chrome. Credit: David Nield.
It’s no secret that browser extensions can be incredibly useful, helping you make the most out of the internet without having to launch entirely separate programs. But install too many of them, and they will start to bog down your browser, especially true for add-ons that are constantly analyzing what you’re doing across the web.
With this in mind, it’s a good idea to run a regular audit of your installed extensions. Remove the ones that you don’t use very often (you can always reinstall them later) and notice a much snappier browser as a result.
In Chrome,