{"id":149629,"date":"2020-02-10T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T09:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=149629"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:24:24","slug":"best-flags-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/best-flags-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"The best flags for Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As Google works to continuously improve and evolve Google Chrome and all its features, some features develop faster than others. This means that while some new features get packaged up into official update packages and become official parts of the Chrome browser, others require more development and more testing. It is possible, however, to test these in-development features yourself though, as Google includes them in Chrome as\u00a0Flags<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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How to find Google Chrome\u00a0Flags<\/h2>\n

Google Chrome\u00a0Flags are experimental new features that aren\u2019t quite ready to make it officially into the Chrome code. Some might not ever make it. You can still try them out, however, but you just need to be aware that they might not work as well as they should and your browser may become less stable, if you use them. If you don\u2019t care about that and want to try them anyway, all you need to do is\u00a0Open Chrome<\/strong>\u00a0and then copy and paste\u00a0chrome:\/\/flags\/\u00a0<\/strong>into Chrome\u2019s address bar. Then as soon as you hit Enter, you\u2019ll be taken to the Chrome Flags\u00a0page.<\/p>\n

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At the top, you\u2019ll also see a search bar. Below we\u2019ll give you a list of all the best Chrome Flags you should try right now that will improve your browsing experience. As we go through them, all you have to do is copy and paste the title of each into the search bar and you\u2019re away. This search bar works exactly the same as the find feature you can use on any Chrome page by using the keyboard shortcut\u00a0CTRL + F\u00a0<\/strong>on a Windows PC or\u00a0CMD + F\u00a0<\/strong>on an Apple Mac. Also, if you\u2019re reading this article on Google Chrome, you only need to click the name of each flag mentioned below to go straight to the relevant setting.<\/p>\n

How to use Chrome Flags<\/h2>\n

What you\u2019ll see below the search bar is a long list of experimental features, a brief description of each feature, and a drop-down menu next to them all where you can set them to be\u00a0Enabled<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Disabled<\/strong>, although some will have the option to be set at the\u00a0Default\u00a0<\/strong>setting. You\u2019ll also see at the top of the menu an\u00a0Available<\/strong>\u00a0tab and a\u00a0Disable\u00a0<\/strong>tab. All the experimental features listed in the Available tab are the features that work on the platform you\u2019re currently using. If you\u2019re using a PC, you will see different features in the Available tab than you will, if you are using Chrome on your Android smartphone or iOS iPhone or iPad.<\/p>\n

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Once you\u2019ve found the Flag you want and set it to Enabled all you need to do is relaunch Chrome to activate it. You\u2019ll see a\u00a0Relaunch now<\/strong>\u00a0button, but you\u2019ll also be able to do it simply by closing Chrome and then opening it again. Once you restart Chrome again, your experimental feature will be active.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s then, go through some good Flags to try that will make Chrome better.<\/p>\n

The best experimental Chrome Flags<\/h2>\n

Group Tags Together<\/a><\/h3>\n

This experimental feature is designed to help you tackle one of the most frustrating aspects of using Google Chrome; having far too many tabs open at once. If you activate this feature, you\u2019ll be able to organize all your open tabs into groups. This will clear up your open browser as each group will then be clearly independent from the others. You\u2019ll also be able to name these grouped tabs and color coordinate them. In essence, as well as helping you clear up the clutter, this feature can help you turn your browser tabs into an extra bookmarks bar that you build up each session.<\/p>\n

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Smooth Scrolling<\/a><\/h3>\n

This Chrome flag addresses what many may see as a minor gripe. If you activate this flag, you\u2019ll no longer see any type of delayed reaction when you scroll through pages on Chrome. The animation will be much smoother.<\/p>\n

Parallel downloading<\/a><\/h3>\n

If you ever download multiple items at once and get frustrated about how long it all takes, this is the experimental Chrome feature you\u2019re looking for. When you enable this Flag, your downloads will run parallel to each other, rather than in a queue. You\u2019ll notice a considerable acceleration in your download speeds.<\/p>\n

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Omnibox tab switch suggestions<\/a><\/h3>\n

This cool feature makes it really easy to switch between tabs you have open. When Enabled, you\u2019ll be able to type the name of a site you have open in another tab and then see an option appear in the omnibox that says\u00a0Switch to this tab.\u00a0<\/strong>Hitting this option will then take you there.<\/p>\n

Tab Freeze<\/a><\/h3>\n

One of the major gripes that most people have with Chrome is that it uses a lot of RAM and can slow PCs and Macs down to a crawl. Most of the time the issue is that too many tabs are open. Each open Chrome tab needs about 50MB of memory. That might not sound like much in today\u2019s world, but 50s add up fast. If you enable the Tab Freeze Chrome Flag, all eligible tabs that have been inactive for five minutes will be frozen, freeing up the RAM they were using.<\/p>\n

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Extensions Toolbar Menu<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chrome Extensions are one of those key features that have helped Chrome become the most popular web browser on the planet. The more you have, however, the more crowded your browser can look with all the extension icons on display. This Flag will help you tidy them all up by putting them behind a single icon, which will then open a menu of all your active Chrome Extensions.<\/p>\n

Experimental QUIC Protocol<\/a><\/h3>\n

Chrome is a fast browser. It is one of the main reasons it is so popular. The experimental QUIC protocol, however, will make Google Chrome load pages even faster by combining TCP and UDP elements and reducing the number of connection requests. As well as making things move along much quicker, this will also make things more secure.<\/p>\n

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Google allows you to try out experimental new features for the Chrome browser. These are called Flags and this is how to find them, how to use them, and a list of all the best Chrome Flags available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":130941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[3150],"tags":[1082,2378,1066,1068,1045,1072,1080],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-149629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-google-chrome","tag-microsoft","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325362,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149629\/revisions\/325362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149629"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=149629"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=149629"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=149629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}