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Greatly increase Chrome performance

22 points by Mojah 14y ago

evmar 14y ago
(I am a former Chrome developer.) Whimsically flipping flags leads to random inexplicable browser misbehavior a week from now after you've forgotten you changed something. The reason these flags are off by default is because they have consequences: e.g. pipelining causes random HTTP timeouts if any proxy between you and your destination doesn't understand it. The GPU stuff will all be on by default once it works reliably. Turn these sorts of experiments on temporarily to see if they affect a page you're working on, sure, but don't think that you're making your browser better by leaving them on.
- devolve 14y ago
  Well stated. From my own experience, Asynchronous DNS caused everything to actually load slower. I have no idea why, maybe it's because we are on a shared network or something.
- pepijndevos 14y ago
  I came across several "woo, pipelining, speed!!!" articles before, but it seems that Opera already has it on by default, and Chrome will too, in a future release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining#Implementation_in_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining#Implementation_...
spullara 14y ago
Benchmarks or it didn't happen.
- neya 14y ago
  Haha! I agree!!
  - daeken 14y ago
    If you agree with a comment, just upvote it. Use comments to add value, not support.
    - neya 14y ago
      Thanks for the tip, will keep it in mind next time. And FYI I did upvote. kthxbai
danielroseman 14y ago
What an extremely irritating blog. For some reason the owner seems to have linked the pagedown key to the "previous article" link. If I press the pagedown key, it's because I want to read the text that's currently off the screen, not because I want to read the previous article. You're actually preventing me from reading your full text. Fail.
- alanbyrne 14y ago
  Pagedown scrolls down the page for me.
alanbyrne 14y ago
So I've been using these tweaks for an hour and I have noticed a large perceivable speed increase. Let's see what crashes over the next few weeks (Once I've forgotten that I've set these flags and end up swearing at my browser for a few hours)

22 points by Mojah 14y ago

evmar 14y ago

(I am a former Chrome developer.) Whimsically flipping flags leads to random inexplicable browser misbehavior a week from now after you've forgotten you changed something. The reason these flags are off by default is because they have consequences: e.g. pipelining causes random HTTP timeouts if any proxy between you and your destination doesn't understand it. The GPU stuff will all be on by default once it works reliably. Turn these sorts of experiments on temporarily to see if they affect a page you're working on, sure, but don't think that you're making your browser better by leaving them on.

devolve 14y ago
Well stated. From my own experience, Asynchronous DNS caused everything to actually load slower. I have no idea why, maybe it's because we are on a shared network or something.
pepijndevos 14y ago
I came across several "woo, pipelining, speed!!!" articles before, but it seems that Opera already has it on by default, and Chrome will too, in a future release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining#Implementation_in_web_browsers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining#Implementation_...

spullara 14y ago

Benchmarks or it didn't happen.

neya 14y ago
Haha! I agree!!
- daeken 14y ago
  If you agree with a comment, just upvote it. Use comments to add value, not support.
  - neya 14y ago
    Thanks for the tip, will keep it in mind next time. And FYI I did upvote. kthxbai

danielroseman 14y ago

What an extremely irritating blog. For some reason the owner seems to have linked the pagedown key to the "previous article" link. If I press the pagedown key, it's because I want to read the text that's currently off the screen, not because I want to read the previous article. You're actually preventing me from reading your full text. Fail.

alanbyrne 14y ago
Pagedown scrolls down the page for me.

alanbyrne 14y ago

So I've been using these tweaks for an hour and I have noticed a large perceivable speed increase. Let's see what crashes over the next few weeks (Once I've forgotten that I've set these flags and end up swearing at my browser for a few hours)