The Google Chrome web browser is a major consumer of certain resources, such as RAM, but this is something that affects desktop users. In mobile devices no, and it is precisely because we do not have their extensions. In addition, inAndroid –and on iPhone too offers us some advantages like thisbasic mode. When activated, Google Chrome optimizes its operation to reduce the use of mobile data; that is, simply consume less megabytes. And it does it in several ways: pre-loading content when we are on WiFi, and reducing the load of web add-ons when we browse the Internet.
How to activate the ‘basic mode’ of Google Chrome: save megabytes when browsing
The first thing you should do, as is evident, is to access the applicationGoogle Chrome on your smart phone or tablet. And once you are inside the app, in the upper right corner you will have to click on the icon with three points in vertical orientation, which gives access to theConfiguration Chrome Clicking on Configuration, the corresponding panel will open and we will have to go down to click onBasic mode
In this section we have two options,Activate the ‘basic mode’ to start saving on the consumption of megabytes, which is what we want, and alsoSee statistics. Once we have activated it, and we have been using it for some time, we can see in this sectionhow It has helped us to consume less mobile data of our contracted rate. Tell us how many megabytes we have used and how many we have saved by having the function activated.
A priori, having this feature activated should not affect the browsing experience at all negatively. In fact, what we can experience is that web pages load faster. In some cases, the images will not load until they appear on the screen, so that some images are not downloaded into the temporary memory of the device unnecessarily.
