8 Hacks Will Make Your Chrome Browser Lightning Fast

The Chrome browser is proving to be one of the most powerful browsers off late (well almost). Add-ons enable some things to become easier which is of great relevance to web-developers. Meanwhile, tweak/hack the right settings and you could end up with a much faster web browser, even doubling your speed in some cases.

1.Browse in Incognito Mode

Browsing in Incognito Mode will ensure your browsing history or cookies won't be stored on your computer so that others using

the same computer will have no clue what you did online.

To enable: Go to file menu > select New Incognito Window

2.Create Customised Search Engines

Most websites have downright terrible search engines. Fortunately Chrome has a way out.

To enable: Right click in the search bar > Select 'Add As Search Engine' > Provide your custom search engine when prompted

3.Get more Omnibox suggestions

Entering a search term into Chrome's Omnibox URL bar, it creates a pull-down list of a maximum of five suggestions for

matching sites. To increase the number:

Right-click on the Chrome icon > Select 'Properties' > Find the Target text box > Add a space at the end of the line and

omnibox-popup-count=30

4.Pinning Tabs

Having a bunch of tabs opened in your Chrome window is a normal sight while browing, however, there's a way to pin down apps so you don't miss out on the one's that are important. All you need to do is right click on any one of the tab you're looking to pin down and choose 'Pin Tab.' The tab will move all the way to the left. Further, the pinned tab won't have the 'x' option so you don't accidently end up closing it.

5.Hover Zoom

The extension called Hover Zoom lets you see the full-size (or nearly) full-sized image of a thumbnail without actually having to navigate to the page and waiting for it to load.

6.Get Short Synopses of Long Articles

The Chrome extension 'Too Long Didn’t Read It' produces a synopsis of an article piece you want to read but don't want to at the word go since it's too long.

7.Turn Off the Lights

The 'Turn Off the Lights' extension fades everyone else in your browser window to black while you’re viewing a video. Particularly useful when videos are of of poor quality and don't look good full screen.

8.Remove just your recent surfing history

The Google Chrome Backup (GCB) tool lets you create a backup of your browser's profile and restore it again later. This will roll back Chrome's search history to the point at which you backed it up.