It’s the digital equivalent of a clogged drain. You boot up your computer, click the Google Chrome icon, and… wait.

You wait to type a search term. You wait for the page to load. You wait while your once-speedy gateway to the internet chugs along like a steam engine trying to keep up with a bullet train.

The problem: Chrome is a beast – a powerful, functional beast, but a beast nonetheless.

Over time, it gets bloated, weighed down by all the digital detritus we pile onto it. But don’t despair. You don’t need a new computer, you just need a digital declutter. Here’s how we’re going to put some pep back in your browser’s step.

Note that though feature names and their locations may differ slightly, most or all of these fixes work for Chromium-based browsers as well, such as Microsoft Edge

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