3 Quick tips to speed up your browser in minutes

Your browser is really slow, it takes forever to load a page and gets stuck when you play a video, which makes you really feel frustrated.
Probably you have even resigned and thought of changing your computer but first there are some things you can do to speed up your browser. Sometimes the reason why your Internet connection is slow can rely on factors such as ISP supplied bandwidth, hardware equipped or RAM memory, but some of your habits and preferences can play an important role to this regard.

3 Quick tips to speed up your browser in minutes

• Close all the browser tabs you don't need. You may think is convenient to have everything you need at hand, but any open tab uses a certain amount of RAM memory and the more open tabs  the least RAM memory is available to the operating system.
  

Regardless of the browser you use, this scenario may lead to computer freezes, especially when open tabs are Flash-based, as Adobe Flash is a very well-known resource drainer. If you need to remind the URL of a tab you want to read later, you can use tools such as Delicious, allowing you both to save a link to a page to delicious website (using tags to find it more easily) and to share it on social media.  

• Slash the number of add-ons or extensions installed. 

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You need to figure out which plug-in is really necessary to you and which isn't. The more plug-ins are installed, the higher the overall size of RAM memory used by your browser,  so you need to find the right trade-off between customization and performance. You can disable or remove any unneeded add-on selecting Add-ons from Firefox Tools menu.
In the next window choose Extensions and you'll see a list of all plug-ins currently installed. 
After clicking the plug-in you want disabled, select Disable and then restart the browser to complete the operation (Fig. 3).

• Periodically clear your browser cache and history

Another thing impacting your surfing experience is your browser cache size. In fact browsers save some pages and images off-line to your local computer because if you visit the same website again, they can load them much faster. if your cache gets too big, though, it'll take longer to find the right picture or page to load and you will notice slowdowns.
For Firefox you can clear your browser cache clicking Options and then Privacy. From there you can delete browsing history, download history, cache, cookies, saved passwords, auto fill form data, etc. 
With Google Chrome you need to click the wrench button, go to Settings and then to the Advanced Settings tab, where you'll find Clear Browsing Data

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Wrap up
Your browser can perform poorly due to several reasons but, apart any consideration about hardware or Internet connection speed, you can take action to have a faster surfing experience.
This can certainly speed up your browser but don't expect a dramatic boost.

There are some plug-ins supposedly capable to ensure a faster surfing such as Tweak Network Settings or Firefox Booster but you always have to ask yourself whether another add-on could really make a big difference or clog up your browser even more.