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Make Your Google Chrome Faster For Web Browsing



Short Bytes: Sometimes, slow web browsing could be a real headache and it’s irritating for most of us. If your data connection is fast enough, this could be a result of your sluggish web browser. To solve this issue, we are here with some useful tips and tricks to make your Google Chrome faster and thus boosting up your browser’s performance. 
Google Chrome is undisputedly the best and one of the most popular web browser available in the market. According to different surveys, about 25-28 percent people browse the web using Google Chrome. Talking about the speed, benchmark tests put Chrome at the top without any hesitation. To improve the web browsing experience and making it faster, Google has introduced many features like better security measures and new protocols.
Even though Chrome is the fastest web browser available, it’s often bashed for eating up your RAM and slowing down your PC. To make Google Chrome faster than ever, we’re here with some simple tweaks and tricks. After performing these steps, you are bound to experience increased speed in Google Chrome.
For everyday use, Chrome works just fine. But if you are a power user, you can try out few experimental options of Chrome. These tweaks use your PC muscle to make Google Chrome faster improve the performance.
Let’s take a look at them one by one:

Method 1: Using flags setting to make Google Chrome faster:

Your Google Chrome browser has a hidden browser feature known as “flags” that can be used for testing purposes and improving the performance of Google Chrome.
These features are experimental and they may change, disappear or break anytime. So, as soon as you proceed with this method and open the flags in your Google Chrome browser to make it faster, Google shows the following message as a warning:
These experimental features may change, break, or disappear at any time. We make absolutely no guarantees about what may happen if you turn one of these experiments on, and your browser may even spontaneously combust. Jokes aside, your browser may delete all your data, or your security and privacy could be compromised in unexpected ways. Any experiments you enable will be enabled for all users of this browser. Please proceed with caution.
However, the steps we are going to mention ahead, are not much to be worried about and you can hack you Google Chrome browser to increase its speed and overall performance. If you notice any glitches, you can always revert back the changes with the same simple steps mentioned ahead.
Take a look at these steps to change the “flags” settings in Google Chrome to make it faster than ever: (Click to enlarge the images)
1. Type chrome://flags/ in the search bar of Google Chrome to open the flags page. Here you can see tons of things to change and create a havoc in Google Chrome. But, proceed carefully and don’t change any setting on your own.
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2. Search for Maximum tiles for interest area and set it to 512. This step actually increases the RAM that Chrome is allowed to use and thus makes your Google Chrome a lot faster.
It’ll be easier to locate the items in flags if you perform the search using Ctrl+F in Windows and Cmd+F in Mac as the items in flags are not much organized.
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3. Search for Number of Raster threads and set it to 4. This small modification increase rendering speed of images in Chrome and improves the Google Chrome performance.
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4. Search SPDY/4 and set it to Enable. This will speed up page loading by making web transactions faster to speed up Google Chrome.
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5. Find Enable fast tab/window close and set it to Enable. Enable this change if you want to close any window or tab faster.
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6. To make Google Chrome faster on touch screens computer, search forTouch Events and Enable it. This will increase your Google Chrome speed drastically.
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Method 2: Google’s prerendering suggestion to make web pages load faster

In a blog post, Google explains the method of prerendering the links that can make your Google Chrome faster. Actually, while browsing, Chrome predicts the links you might click and it prepares them to load instantly for you.
For example: If you are on a web page and there’s a read more or next page link, Google Chrome intuitively prerenders the web page and serves it instantly as you click on it. Also, by enabling this option for increasing the Google Chrome speed, you browser predicts the web pages you might enter in the address bar and shows them as you hit enter. Chrome does this by looking at your browsing habits.
Here’s the way to turn on these network action predictions:
On you PC:
1. Click on the hamburger Chrome menu symbol located at the top right corner of your Chrome browser to open the settings.
2.Go to Settings and then click on Show advanced settings.
3. Now in the privacy section check Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly.
On your Android device:
1. Tap on the Chrome menu and open Settings.
2. Under Advanced, find Privacy and open it.
3. Now look for the option Prefetch page resources.
4. You’ll be greeted with following options, choose the desired one to make your Google Chrome faster:
  • Always: Chrome will always preload webpages even when you’re using mobile data. This way, you may end up using a large chunk of mobile data.
  • Only on Wi-Fi: Chrome will only preload webpages on Wi-Fi network. This is the default option.
  • Never: If you are using a very limited data plan, select this to stop Google Chrome from preloading the web pages.

Method 3: Using speed up extensions to make Google Chrome faster

While writing about making Mozilla firefox faster for web browsing, I already mentioned that I personally don’t like lots of extensions installed in my browser. This is so because sometimes, these extensions are also a hindrance in speeding up the speed of your browser. But, there are few useful extensions that can help you to speed up your Google Chrome.
1. The Great Suspender: It’s my personal favorite extension and stops Chrome from killing your PC by eating tons of RAM. This extension suspends the unused tabs in Chrome, saves your PC juice and makes Google Chrome faster. 
2. Better Browse: This extension makes web browsing on Google Chrome about 15% faster by using some simple tweaks already mention in this tutorial. 

Method 4: Random methods to make Google Chrome faster

1.  Type chrome://plugins/ in URL box and disable the unnecessary plugins as they make your Google Chrome slower.
2. Type chrome://extensions/ in URL box and delete the extension that are unnecessary or not in use for long time.
3. Type chrome://settings/clearBrowserData and clear browsing history from beginning (Uncheck Cached images and files and other below options).
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That’s it! These were the best methods which will help you to increase your web browsing speed and make Google chrome faster than ever.
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World Wide Web: A Proper Introduction To Understanding Its Tremendous Potential


World Wide Web. Synced. Bluetooth. Smartphones. Download.
These words and their peers have invaded the English lexicon with hardly a proper introduction. We know what they do, but not what they are. The Internet? What’s that? Some call it a “computer conversation.” But how exactly does the $1,399 LG Smart ThinQ Internet-connected kitchen range, which comes with its own smartphone app and touchscreen interface, participate in that conversation?
Close your eyes. Can you feel them? The radio waves? Hundreds, maybe thousands of them are passing through your organs and bouncing off your glasses. They’re like invisible light. Radio waves destined for GPS units stream down from geostationary satellites. Cell phones swallow radio waves emitted by cellular towers 20 miles distant, whereas a baby monitor or, say, the Internet-connected Good Night Lamp, radiates shorter, weaker radio waves that expand and dissipate like ripples in a pond.
That’s the Internet of Things, you see. It’s every inanimate thing with a radio wave transmitter or a fiber optic cable connection. Today, the IoT includes everything from the Belkin Wemo crock pot to the Google self-driving car and more practical gadgets like the ADT Pulse system and the Nest smart thermostat. Toys, mostly. But we have toyed our way to the tipping point. The machines may have come to save mankind.

A New World of Energy

Consider the humble thermostat, or the utility meter. Today, “smart” thermostats automatically learn your preferred heating and cooling schedule, and smart utility meters provide real-time billing and usage information. Go a step farther. Ecovent, a North American start-up company, pairs a smart thermostat with room motion monitors, room temperature sensors, and modulated old-work air vents to individually heat and cool each room as needed.
Don’t you see? For you, purchasing a Nest thermostat or Ecovent heating and cooling system is a convenience, maybe even a cost savings. For society, it’s a precious mouthful of fresh air. It could save millions of gallons of toxic refrigerant and eliminate billions of tons of carbon dioxide, particularly as air conditioning expands to the southern hemisphere.

Tech to Protect the Environment

Many hope that the IoT will perform CPR on Mother Nature. Environmental sensors could monitor air and water quality, pundits argue. Technological advances have reduced the massive power demand for global Internet data centers. Real-time energy consumption data, like smart utility meters, can eliminate the need for “peaker plants,” often powered by coal, occasionally required to generate electricity during peak hours and seasons.
There are challenges, of course. Gadgets must develop longer lifespans. Currently, the average lifespan of a smartphone is 18-24 months. After that, the sensitive electronics, which often contain semi-precious metals, wind up in landfills. In other words, no iPhone36.
IoT devices like the Nest thermostat or Apple Watch are tempting. They are cheap, sleek, and do all our dirty work. We just push buttons. But the real revolution rides on the lowly Internet-connected sensor.
Consider, for instance, a forest fire in the Colorado Rockies. Remote forest smoke detectors beam information over the airwaves and paint a real-time map of the fire’s origin and pathways. They communicate with local traffic lights, which use pre-set algorithms to create safe highway detours around endangered zones. Volunteer firefighters receive automatic text alerts, and within mere hours, the forest fire has been surrounded.
The possibilities are endless. Supply chain control, marine pollution, commercial fleet tracking – all of these sectors could be revolutionized with the introduction of simple IoT sensors designed to generate Big Data, data that can be amassed and shared and targeted. Thousands, millions of radio waves would pummel and percolate through the atmosphere, carrying sine-wave conversations across the globe. That’s the tipping point. Tomorrow, that will be the Internet of Things.
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Malware Can Be Hidden In Drive-By Download Exploits Using HTML5.



According to two researchers from Italian universities in Rome and Salerno, have identified methods through which malware can be hidden in drive-by download exploits using modern HTML5 APIs.
Hackers can use drive-by download method to install-malware, spyware or computer viruses on victims computer. Most of these type of exploits are spotted byantivirus software's, which made the attackers to think different techniques to hide their actions.
On 2013 a research was done and redone in July 2015. Researchers tested out their HTML5-based using Virus-Total antivirus engines and used security bugs in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Developers use three different ways for confusing and clearing malicious code. These methods were successful  against static and dynamic analysis detection engines
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  • Delegated Preparation –  Delegates the preparation of malware to the system APIs.
  • Distributed Preparation – Distributes the preparation code over several concurrent and independent processes running within the browser.
  • User-driven Preparation – Lets the user trigger the execution of the preparation code during the time he spends interacting with the page.
RESEARCHERS SAYS THAT,”A FURTHER INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THIS FAILURE [TO DETECT THE OBFUSCATED MALWARE] WAS DUE TO THE INABILITY OF THESE [DETECTION] SYSTEMS  TO  RECOGNIZE  AND  DEAL  WITH  HTML5  RELATED  PRIMITIVES.”
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New battery can charge your smartphones in 6 minutes flat


Researchers Use Aluminium in Lithium-Ion Batteries which will charge it in 6 minutes

The main issue faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries is that they must expand and shrink during each cycle, as they go through continuous process of charging and discharging, sometimes twice in volume, and then decreasing back. As a result, the repeated shedding and reforming of the layer consumes lithium and reduces the battery’s capacity.
Team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have developed a new battery made with aluminium-filled capsules that could charge your cellphone in six minutes. It makes use of nanoparticles with a shell of titanium dioxide enclosed around aluminium, which behaves as the battery’s negative electrode.
Also, the metal could expand and shrink freely by enclosing the aluminium inside a shell. According to the team, this novel way could radically improve battery’s life cycle by encouraging its capacity and power. The battery has four times the capacity of current lithium-ion batteries and deteriorate over lesser period of time.
The research succeeds in dealing with problems faced in the past by using aluminium in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. At a normal charging rate, the outcome is an electrode that provides more than thrice the capacity of graphite (1.2 Ah/g), says MIT professor Ju Li. However, the capacity is still 0.66 Ah/g after 500 cycles at very fast charging rates (six minutes to full charge). She further adds that the materials are cheap and it also has simple and easy scalable manufacturing method.
The team of researchers included Sa Li, Yu Cheng Zhao, and Chang An Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing and Junjie Niu, Kangpyo So, and Chao Wang of MIT. The work was landed support by the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
The study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
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Samsung smart fridge can expose your gmail credential to hackers

Using a Samsung smart fridge could leave your Gmail account vulnerable to hackers

Security firm, Pen Test Partners has discovered a man-in-the-middle vulnerability in Samsung smart fridges. Using this vulnerability, hackers can intercept smart fridge owners Gmail credentials.
The hack was discovered in Samsung’s RF28HMELBSR fridge which has a Wi-Fi capability that allows a user to show their Gmail calendar on the display. Though Samsung has implemented a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the fridge fails to validate the certificates that come as part of the SSL protocol, leaving the device vulnerable to attack. For an SSL certificate to be valid, the browser must receive a valid code back from the website host, something Samsung failed to do.
According to The Register, since the Samsung fridge is not yet available in Europe, the UK-based security consultancy ran out of time at DefCon in its attempts to intercept communications between the fridge terminal and the software update server. The Registerreport notes that the researchers could finally find potential security problems in its mobile app.
According to Pen Test, “We pulled apart the mobile app and found what we believe is the certificate inside a keystore. We “believe” we did because it is has a name that suggests this. However, it is correctly passworded and we are yet to extract the password that opens the key store. We think we’ve found the password to the certificate in the client side code, but it’s obfuscated and we haven’t got round to reversing it, yet.”
Ken Munro, a partner at Pen Test, clarifies: “While SSL is in place, the fridge fails to validate the certificate. Hence, hackers who manage to access the network that the fridge is on…can Man-In-The-Middle the fridge calendar client and steal Google login credentials from their neighbours.”
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