Traffic saving mode in Google Chrome makes it possible to reduce the amount of data that is downloaded and enhance protection against malware and phishing. It works effectively in conjunction with the Safe Search service. This frees up some of the resources of your personal computer, Android, iOS, or Chromebook device.
How Google Chrome works: “Traffic saving”
The “Traffic Saver” extension in Google Chrome, which can be downloaded directly from the browser or from an online store, provides fairly broad opportunities for optimizing the flow of information. After this, information that is downloaded via the HTTP protocol will be redirected through special Google servers, where it is compressed. The URLs of all requests are recorded in a special log; cookies and headers are not included in these records. The content of the pages is cached, but not entered into the log, and after six months it is completely deleted.
It should be noted that such compression does not occur with data that is obtained from secure pages (HTTPS), as well as in incognito mode. This is a consequence of the fact that they do not go through Google servers. “Traffic Saver” is a Chrome extension that is not suitable for anonymization, since it only uses a transparent proxy server. The connection between such a server and the browser is by default carried out over an encrypted channel, which can be disabled by the network administrator.
Analysis of data about the time of visiting certain pages makes it possible to optimize the network flow, and online information about responses informs about software that can cause damage to the system.
Along with the advantages, certain inconveniences may arise:
- pictures are of low quality;
- the user's location will not be recognized by some sites;
- there may be problems with opening internal company websites;
- Certain services on the websites of mobile operators (personal account, payment for services) may fail;
- If you manually change the etc/hosts file, such settings may be ignored.
How to enable data saving in Chrome
In Chrome "Traffic Saver" the extension is supported starting from version 48. For personal computers and Chromebooks, the activation algorithm is as follows:
- the corresponding extension is downloaded and installed from the company’s online store;
- The function is enabled by default, otherwise you need to activate it by pressing the “Enable ET mode” button.
Disabling is done using a special button in the upper right corner of the browser.
For Android devices:
- The Chrome application starts;
- click the “Settings” icon;
- click “ET” in the “Advanced” section;
- the switch is set to “On” mode.
Disabling can be done at any time by changing the position of the switch.
After activating data stream saving, the Safe Browsing service will automatically start functioning on mobile devices.
Additional features
Google developers are constantly working to improve the software product for ease of use in mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) and desktop devices (PCs). The rapidly developing mobile Internet is often the driving force for the development of new computer applications.
So, in 2015, the Data Saver extension for PC appeared, with which you can optimize the network data flow. You can also use it to visit sites blocked in Russia, since they use servers located abroad. The amount of saved traffic and the compression percentage are displayed on a special tab.
Previously, since 2014, this service was available only to users of the mobile version of Chrome for Android and iOS, which in recent years has almost caught up with its desktop “big brother” in functionality. The data on the servers is converted to WebP format and scaled to the resolution available to the device, and the text is compressed. And only after this the page is loaded and opened in the browser.
For greater effect, you can turn off the function of pre-downloading web pages or allow it only when using Wi-fi.
A few months after Android, for iOS 8 and higher, Google programmers updated Chrome, adding a Data Saver extension to save data transfer. The update is compatible with iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad and is available for installation in the Chrome Web Store.
One of the main advantages of the Google Chrome browser is the extremely fast loading of web pages, but if the quality of your Internet leaves much to be desired, you will not be able to appreciate this advantage. However, Google came up with the opportunity to make the browser fast for users who, for some reason, cannot provide themselves with high-quality access to the network, for example, live in rural areas. This feature is realized using the so-called turbo mode. What is turbo mode and How to enable turbo mode in Google Chrome, we will tell you in this article.
What is turbo mode?
To be fair, it is worth saying that turbo mode is not an innovation by Google; almost all modern browsers are equipped with this mode today. The principle of operation of the Google Chrome turbo mode is the same as the principle of operation of the turbo modes of other browsers, and it consists in compressing incoming traffic, as a result of which pages load faster.
The way Google Chrome's turbo mode works is as follows: the user opens a page, and its content is instantly sent to a special Google server. On this server, all media content - pictures, gifs, videos - is compressed, and the excess - advertising banners, pop-ups, etc. and is completely cut out. After these procedures, the page is returned to the user and opened in an optimized form.
Agree, at first glance it seems that the turbo mode does not speed up, but, on the contrary, slows down the browser. After all, in normal mode the browser only needs to load the page, albeit a “heavy” one, but in turbo mode it is necessary to transfer its contents twice - to the Google server and back and still wait for processing. However, all these procedures are so optimized that, surprisingly, working with the turbo mode is faster, especially if the user often accesses heavy sites.
How to enable turbo mode in Google Chrome?
The Google Chrome browser is equipped with fairly broad optimization functionality through the Settings menu, but truly unlimited optimization possibilities are available to the user in the Chrome online store.
The Chrome Online Store is a special platform that contains a huge number of extensions and applications specifically for the Google Chrome browser. With the help of these extensions and applications, you can supplement the program with certain options.
The Google Chrome turbo mode option is activated using the extension " Traffic savings" Thus, to enable this mode in the browser, you need to download this extension and install it.
How to download and install the “Traffic Saving” extension?
To install this extension:
1. Go to Chrome Web Store .
2. In the search bar, write “Traffic saving” and press Enter.
As you can see, upon requesting “Saving traffic”, the Chrome store gives us a bunch of other extensions and applications, but if we read their description, we will understand that they all offer not the functionality of the turbo mode, but slightly different features, so in this situation they are for us not interesting.
4. Automatic installation of the extension will begin; upon completion, the browser will notify you that the extension is installed and will ask you to click on a special icon to activate it.
5. After activation, the extension will start working and a window will appear that will keep you updated on savings statistics - if you do not want to constantly see this window, click on the extension icon again, the window will disappear, but the extension will not stop working.
If you click the "Learn More" link in the statistics window, you will be taken to Google's help page, which will tell you in detail how this extension works. If you click on the “Detailed information” link, you will receive more complete statistics on the operation of the extension - under the savings graph you can see how much was saved when visiting a particular resource in particular.
How to disable and remove the Data Saver extension?
If for some reason you don’t like working with the extension, you can either temporarily disable it or remove it altogether.
To temporarily disable an application:
1. Right-click on the extension icon and select “Manage Extensions”.
Half of the population of our planet uses the Internet every day and often experiences long loading times for website pages. You can smooth out this inconvenience and reduce the loading time of a web page in your browser by turning on turbo mode. This becomes possible by reducing the amount of downloaded information. The quality of images decreases and automatic downloading of video and audio files stops. Let's figure out how to enable turbo mode in browsers, for example, Opera?
Enabling turbo mode in Opera
Depending on the browser version, some interface elements may differ from the description in the article, but they are intuitively easy to find.
If you need to get the image in original quality, click on the picture and select “Reload image in original quality” from the menu.
Important! If you have fast unlimited Internet, it is recommended not to use this browser function, because... In this case, you will not receive a significant reduction in page loading time, and a number of browser functions may be unavailable.
Enabling turbo in Yandex Browser
Yandex.Browser is another browser where you can enable turbo mode without installing additional plugins and add-ons. Auto mode turns on at 128 kbps and turns off at 512 kbps.
Let's look at enabling the turbo function in Yandex Browser:
Important! It is worth noting that this program can compress video, which saves traffic by 70 percent.
Save traffic for Google Chrome
Google Chrome does not initially have a built-in turbo mode function, so you first need to install the corresponding extension called “Traffic Saver”.
To install and activate the plugin:
fasTun Tool Add-on for Mozilla Firefox
As a solution for Mozilla Firefox, you can consider the “fasTun Tool” add-on.
To install the add-on:
- Go to the add-on page and click the “Add to Firefox” button.
- Then click “Install”.
- After restarting the browser, the add-on will start working; you can configure it in “Manage add-ons”.
The article will talk about how to save traffic in Google Chrome. This mode is also called “Turbo”, and almost everyone has seen it in browsers such as Yandex Browser or Opera. However, Google Chrome does not have this component, and you will not be able to save traffic. In order to keep up with competitors, the application developers made a special extension - “Traffic Saving” (in Google Chrome specifically). If you don’t know how to install it, then this article will be useful to you.
How to find and install the extension
In order to find a function in Google Chrome, you need to go to the menu of the same name. To do this, find and click the “Menu” button in the upper right part of the window. A context menu will open, in it, hover over “Additional tools” and select “Extensions”.
You will see a tab that will display all the extensions that you currently have installed. Then you need to go to the store, to do this, scroll down to the end and follow the “More extensions” link.
So you ended up in that same store. In order not to waste a lot of time and not manually search for the “Traffic Saving” mode in Google Chrome, it is better to use the search. The search bar is located on the left panel at the very top, enter “data saver” there.
All search results will be shown to you. We are interested in the “Extensions” section, where the desired “Traffic Saving” utility should be located first on the list. In Google Chrome, to install it, you need to click “Install”. Next, confirmation will be required, agree - and the download and installation will begin.
How to enable the extension
If everything went well and “Traffic Saver” is installed in your browser, then at the top of the window, next to the “Menu” button, there should be an extension icon.
To enable it, click LMB on the icon. A menu will open. By checking the box, enable traffic saving; by unchecking it, disable it. Also here you can see statistics that will show the amount of traffic saved.
A function that allows you to compress incoming traffic is of considerable benefit to those Internet surfers who do not have the opportunity to provide themselves with high-quality Internet. In order to somehow reduce the time during which pages load in the browser, developers are integrating a special Turbo mode. For several years, Google representatives did not take such a decision.
However, Google decided to release an official extension called “Data Saver” so that such a feature could be implemented. This article provides a detailed description of how you can speed up the Google Chrome browser using this add-on.
General set of information
For now, Data Saver is in open beta testing. This means that absolutely every user is able to download the extension for free.
However, the work of the plugin leaves little to be desired: most of the extension’s functions have not been implemented. The Add-on expands the capabilities of the Google Chrome toolbar by adding a special button to it, when clicked, the accelerator is quickly activated or deactivated if pages are loading too slowly. mode.
After the user uses this button, a small menu will open where he will need to click on the blue button, which is labeled “Turn on Data Saver”.
The plugin works in Google Chrome in the same way as Turbo mode in Opera and Yandex browsers. Every page you open is sent to a special Google server. These pages are “cleaned”, everything that is unnecessary is removed from them, and the remaining material is subject to an optimization process, that is, pictures and video material are compressed, advertising banners are cut out, and the like. 
For now, we can say that the application is not able to work with web pages that transmit information data using HTTPS (secure protocol). Traffic compression may also not occur if a person works in incognito mode.
The expansion may also have an unpleasant side effect. In the Russian Federation there are a great many different regional restrictions that do not allow access to some sites.
When the user uses “Data Saver”, it becomes possible to receive data packets from foreign servers, which allow one to bypass such restrictions.
For the most part, extensions that are responsible for implementing such functions carry out the workflow in a very slow mode, which is why the speed increases.
The process of installing an add-on for the Google Chrome browser
Google Chrome does not have a tool for providing page compression in the main assembly, as is the case in the Yandex and Opera browsers. It is used exclusively in versions of Google Chrome for mobile devices. To implement the function responsible for activating acceleration on a home PC, you need to install a special plugin.
When the program asks you about making changes to Google Chrome, you will have to agree. 
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