How To Increase the Speed of Your Web Browser

             Two potential causes of your internet browser beginning to run slowly are website cookies and the browser cache. A cookie, put simply, is data that is saved by your computer’s browser that contains information about the settings and preferences that you have set on the websites that you visit, as well as information from previous browsing sessions. For example, if you tell a website to save your login information so you don’t have to enter it every time you visit the website, this is done using an authentication cookie. When information is cached by your browser, this means that a copy of the data is stored by your browser so that it can be retrieved quickly. However, if there are too many cookies stored, or too much data stored in the cache, web browsing activity can actually slow down. You can prevent this by clearing your browsing data from time to time. Here’s some examples of how to clear the cookies and cache in some of the most popular web browsers.

Google Chrome

In the top right corner of the screen, there should be an icon that looks like three dots in a vertical line. Click the dots to open the options menu, and select More tools. Then select Clear browsing data. This will bring you to a menu that lets you decide what you would like to clear from your browser.

Microsoft Edge

Click on the three horizontal dots at the top corner of the screen. Click History, Clear browsing data, and this will let you clear cookies and cached information.

 

The exact way to reach this menu will differ in each web browser, but just try to look for a menu with keywords such as settings, preferences, history, privacy, security, browsing, etc.

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