Learn how to enable the extended preloading feature in Chrome to make your browsing faster.
Chrome’s built-in “Preload Pages” feature guesses which pages or links you might visit from a web page and loads them in the background automatically to speed up your browser. By default, this feature is enabled and set to “Standard” mode. However, if you want to further improve the browsing speed, you can change it to “Extended preloading“. That way, it preloads more pages in the background so that when you click on a link in a web page, the load time is minimal.
In this quick and easy guide, I will show you how to enable the extended preloading feature in Chrome to improve overall page loading speed. Let’s get started.
Enable Extended Preloading in Google Chrome
- Press the “Windows key” to launch the Start menu.
- Search for “Google Chrome” and click “Open“.
- Click the “Menu” icon and select “Settings“.
- Go to the “Performance” tab.
- Select “Extended preloading” under “Speed”.
- With that, you’ve enabled extended preloading in Chrome.
Detailed Steps (With Screenshots)
If the Chrome browser is not already open, we need to open it. You can do that by searching for “Google Chrome” in the Start menu (press Windows key to open it) and clicking the “Open” option on the right panel.
In the Google Chrome window, click the “Menu” icon (three vertical dots) and select the “Settings” option. You can also type “chrome://settings” in the address bar and press “Enter”. This opens the Settings tab.
Go to the “Performance” tab on the sidebar and select the “Enhanced Preloading” option under the “Speed” section.
Note: If you don’t see the “Extended Preloading” option, ensure the “Preload pages” toggle under “Speed” is turned ON.
That is all. Your changes are automatically saved, and you’ve enabled the feature is enabled. From now on, Chrome will guess which pages or links from a web page you might open and automatically preloads them in the background.
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