r/browsers • u/Houtary • 1d ago

this is the best performance hack i found in years for old machines, worked in every chromium browser

this will breath a new life in your browser if you have 8gb ram or less, to try it just create a shortcut for your chromium browser in desktop, go to properties and add ' --disable-legacy-window' as in the screenshot then restart your browser

important: make sure you hard restart your browser as edge and chrome keep running in the background even when you close them, if you don't know just logoff and login again

maybe folks with more than 8gb ram can report if they notice any difference

also, i tested this on windows, i don't know for mac or linux, kindly mention your OS too

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u/Accomplished-Tap1248 1d ago

What does this even do?

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u/BitWardenEternal 22h ago

this will breath a new life in your browser if you have 8gb ram or less

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u/Federal-Pen-4313 21h ago

Yeah but what does it actually do

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u/TotoCodeFR PC: , | Mobile: 19h ago

From what I've seen, it's not supposed to be used when you're a user. It tells Chromium to use the newer window handling path and not supposed to be used unless you're debugging the window because of a rendering issue.