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How to speed up Android browsing: Allocate more memory to Chrome browser

This works only on the Chrome browser, which you may have to access from within the ‘Google’ section of your home page.

Open a new Chrome tab and type into the URL bar: chrome://flags/#max-tiles-for-interest-area

You should see a warning about experimental features in Chrome, and beneath it a list of such features. Scroll down until you find ‘Maximum tiles for interest area’, which should be highlighted. Click the drop-down and you will see several options on a menu dialog. We could see ‘Default’, ’64’, ‘128’, ‘256’ and ‘512’. As you might expect the numbers refer to the amount of memory set aside for the web browser. Switching up to 512MB from the default 128MB should speed up the web browser.

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How to speed up Android browsing: disable Javascript (and Flash) on the Android browser

Unlike the Chrome tweak outlined above, these changes require you to lose some functionality. But given that this functionality is Flash and Javascript, you may not be too upset. You are in essence using an ad blocker on your mobile browser.

Turning off JavaScript will significantly speed up web browsing on all Android devices, but it will also make some web pages look plain and lifeless. You could care less.

To disable Javascript on your Android, open up the Browser, and hit the three dot ‘Menu’ icon in the top righthand corner. Choose Advanced, and then scroll down to ‘Enable JavaScript’. Untick this option and you should see speed improvements, in particular on desktop websites that haven’t been optimised for mobile devices.

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Author: Matt Egan, Global Content Director, Foundry

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Matt Egan is Global Content Director of Foundry, publisher of Tech Advisor, and a passionate technology fan who writes on subjects as diverse as smartphones, internet security, social media and Windows.

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