Faster is better. Who wants to wait for a WebPage to load? And if you run 10 or 20 tabs at a time like me, load time can be excruciating unless you know how to rev up your Web Browser, and this is how we do it:

1. Use a High Output Web Browser:

The new offerings by Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla run circles around their older siblings. There is a lot of debate has to which one is faster. I’ve studied and performed speed tests, and found that each one out-performs the other depending on the test. Chrome10 appears to have a slight advantage today, but the way these guys leap-frog each other, who knows who will be king of the hill next week. Windows Explorer is fast but has some difficulty with compatibility, especially if you run Windows XP (it doesn’t work at all). FireFox just feels faster, and will run on All Windows flavors, PLUS MAC, and Linux. So take your pick, just make sure it is the latest version. 

2. Dump the toolbars:

To win a drag race you might have to dump the spare tire, seats, and even fenders to get light enough to win. The Toolbars in a Web Browser is extra weight that, when removed, greatly increase load time and operating speed. Toolbars can hog memory, chew up bandwidth when they send unnecessary data to the vendor, and take up screen space. I know, some of them can be pretty useful, but doing without can really pick up the pace.

3.Use Tabs instead of Windows:

Tabs are like racing slicks and Windows are like street tires. Slick give you better tractions on the strip, and tabs can make a big difference in Web Browser performance. Most Web Browsers treats each tab as an individual process, and Windows uses a child process of a parent. If you use Windows, if one area of the Web Page crashes, you have to close the browser and you have to find each window all over again. However, If your particular tab happens to crash, for some reason, all you have to do is close that one tab. The other tabs remain in tact. Organizationally, multiple tabs in a single window makes it faster to locate the page you need to work on. No more maximize and minimizing windows, to see what’s there over and over again until you find the right one Opening a single window with multiple tabs is far more efficient AND uses less memory.

4.  Disable Flash:

Flash to a Web Browser is like Smog Devices to race cars. Flash can really eat up memory and processor power causing a page to load really slow. And if you are trying to run 5 or 10 pages, it might appear to lock you up completely. Simply turn Flash off by default,  and enable it to view the things that you need to view with flash. Problem is, Browsers like Crome10 and FireFox requires an  add-on to disable Flash. Internet Explorer uses a built-in tool accessed by clicking Tools > Manage Add-ons > double-click Shockwave Flash Object > Remove All Sites. 

The only other thing I can think of that will increase Web Browser speed, besides buying more bandwidth from your ISP, is to use a ram-disk for your Web Browser cache. Whist Ram is 100 time faster than hard drive cache, it is difficult to configure and maintain. But the first four will not only get your going Browsing Faster, It’s speed that you can really feel. What a rush!