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March 31, 2012

Tweak Chrome Performance With Flags Options



Chrome has lots of experimental features that you can discover by typing ‘chrome:flags' (without quotes) into the address bar (also called the Omnibox). When you do this, you’ll see the message: ‘CarefuI, these experiments may bite’, and a warning. Google adds this warning to remind you that these features haven’t been officially released, and may sometimes contain small glitches, But we’ve tried out the following tips, and they all work fine. You wiII have to restart Chrome for the changes to start working.



Speed up page loading
After typing ‘chrome:flags’, find the ‘GPU compositing on all pages’ link. Enable this and restart Chrome. What you have just done is let your Central Processing Unit (CPU) offload the intensive tasks of loading multimedia files, such as videos that are embedded on web pages. Instead, your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) will handle these files, which means pages will load much more quickly.

View sites that use HTML5
A little further down the list, you’ll find GPU Accelerated Canvas 2D. Enabling this means Chrome will be able to display pages that use the new HTML5 web standard, so you won’t have a problem viewing websites that use the latest web technology.

Get smoother scrolling
Smoother page scrolling, which you will have seen on smartphones and tablets, is another crucial part of HTML5. To make sure that the web pages you browse benefit from this, enable ‘Smooth Scrolling’, Like GPU Accelerated Canvas, this is another way to make sure you experience the latest advances in website technology when using Chrome.

Choose which pages block Flash
Scroll down to roughly half way until you see the option ‘Click to play. EnablLng this lets you choose which individual pages block Flash, rather than creating a blanket block across all sites. For example, if you’re on a page that contains any Flash video feeds, these will be blocked until you decide to click them to play the video.

Play retro games in Chrome
Next, find the ’chrome:flags’ feature named Native Client. Once you click Enable, Chrome will be able to run applications in the browser as if you had downloaded them to your Desktop. One of the benefits of this is that youll be able to play the fun retro games atNaCLBOX , which include Star Wars: TIE Fighter, Duke Nukem and Epic Pinball.

Source:  http://www.techstudy.net/2012/02/perform-tweaks-with-google-chromeflags.html