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Google Chrome: One Click Speed Boost

January 17, 2019

Speed up Chrome with one click. Net Marketshare reports that Chrome is the number one browser with usage at 64.15% for 2018. Unbelievably, Internet Explorer holds second spot at 10.83% with Firefox third at 9.89%. We use Chrome as well and it’s no secret that it is the most popular browser. There’s a lot of reasons people favor Chrome (e.g. simplicity, security, etc.), but speed is typically not one of them. Chrome isolates each tab, which means it eats up memory as you open more and more of them. This means that Chrome starts to slow down if you have a lot of tabs open. Not to worry. BRG has a great tip to help speed up Chrome with a single click.

Just installed the free Chrome extension One Tab. Once you install the extension, there will be an icon in the upper right next to the address bar. Here’s a portion of the description about One Tab:

“Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.

When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save up to 95% of memory because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in Google Chrome.

Privacy assurance

We take your privacy seriously. Your tab URLs are never transmitted or disclosed to either the OneTab developers or any other party, and icons for tab URL domains are generated by Google. The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our ‘share as a web page’ feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the ‘share as a web page’ button.”

When you click on the One Tab icon, all open tabs collapse to a single tab with each tab referenced with an individual hyperlink. You can restore them individually or restore them all at once. The one caveat is that the words used to identify the tab are taken from the HTML code <title> tag. If the developer didn’t use a descriptive tag, you may not be able to determine what the link references. Even with that caveat, I’m loving using One Tab.

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