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Greatly increase Chrome performance (tuinslak.org)
22 points by Mojah on May 29, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


(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.


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.


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_...


Benchmarks or it didn't happen.


Haha! I agree!!


If you agree with a comment, just upvote it. Use comments to add value, not support.


Thanks for the tip, will keep it in mind next time. And FYI I did upvote. kthxbai


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.


Pagedown scrolls down the page for me.


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)




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