Download Faster with Chrome and Firefox: 4 Tips and Tricks

Downloading files from the Internet has become a very simple task. So much so that anyone can download all kinds of files (documents, programs, games, etc.) to be able to use them on their computers. Although there are specific programs to download files (either torrent clients or download managers), web browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, also offer this possibility. Thanks to the browsers we will be able to download any file from any website without using other programs. Although, unfortunately, many times the speed we achieve is much lower than we could expect.

There are many reasons why the downloads we do from browsers are slower than those we do from other programs, such as download managers. However, with a few small tricks we will be able to improve the download speed so that we do not have to resort to other programs to download files faster.

Download Faster with Chrome and Firefox: 4 Tips and Tricks

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Activate parallel downloads

Chrome has a function, disabled by default, that allows us to divide each download into several parts. This is what is known as ” parallel downloads “. Instead of downloading a single file, which can be slower, parallel downloads divide the file into multiple parts and download at the same time, achieving a higher overall download speed.

We can activate this flag, we simply write the following in the address bar, and activate the corresponding experimental option:

chrome://flags/#enable-parallel-downloading

We restart the browser and that’s it.

And what about Firefox? Mozilla’s browser does not have this option. However, we can have this function by installing an extension such as Multithreaded Download Manager .

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Use a fast download extension

Although normally when we talk about download managers the first thing that comes to mind are programs like Jdownloader, in reality we can also find extensions that allow us to optimize and improve browser downloads.

One of the best that we can find for both Chrome and Firefox is DownThemAll! . This program allows us to download absolutely any type of file from any website. The extension will take care of analyzing all the elements and links on any page and adding them to the program. A must-have extension for all those who download files very often and don’t want to be using other programs like Jdownloader.

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Remove unnecessary extensions

Although browser extensions can be very useful, they also imply a loss of performance for both the browser itself and the computer in general. If we have many extensions loaded in memory at the same time, it is normal for everything to go slow, including downloads. And if they are extensions that interfere with traffic, even more so.

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Therefore, another of the tricks that we can carry out to speed up the download of files is to disable all those extensions that we neither use nor need. What’s more, we can even try to open the download from Incognito Mode, to avoid other settings interfering with the speed.

My same applies to the number of open tabs. If we have many open at the same time, we must close all those that we do not need to free up resources and make the downloads go better.

Find another server that allows you to download faster (or try another time)

The problem may not be with our browser, but rather with the server itself. Storage hostings are usually quite slow, especially if we don’t pay for premium subscriptions . But it can also happen that the server is saturated in those moments and, therefore, the download speed is too slow.

Therefore, if we are having problems downloading files from the Internet , what we can do is find another server from which we can download the files. We can even leave the download for later, since it may be faster at another time.