Smartphones deliver a gigantic world of online content to you wherever you are, one page at a time. But that’s sort of the problem: One. ge. At. A. e. The fundamentally modal nature of browsing the web on a mobile device leaves you staring at a page while you wait for it to load, the myriad of sluggish URshorteners awful mobile webpages certainly don’t help. th a few tweaks apps, you can make browsing the web on Android a faster, more efficient experience.

Read quickly with nk Bubble

This is an app from noted developer cy designed to make loading sluggish websites much less rage-inducing. You simply set nk Bubble as your default browser, then all the web links you tap on will trigger a small bubble off toward the edge of the screen. The page loads in the background while you go about your business, scanning feeds or tapping out an SMS or reading Twitter. en the progress bar on the bubble says it’s done loading, you can tap to open a floating browser window.

The advantage here is that you aren’t staring at a blank page, waiting for it to load. You save a few seconds here there, but it doesn’t take you out of what you’re doing. The bubble with the pre-loaded page hangs out at the edge of the screen, you can drag it around wherever you want, just like a Facebook chat head. If you have the paid version of nk Bubble ($5), you can open as many bubbles as you want in a single stack. This app is also smart enough not to intercept links that are better opened in official apps like + Maps.

The pro version of nk Bubble is also great for collecting multiple links that you want to check out later. st go down your Twitter, RSS feed, or whatever open links one after another. They wait for you in the stack, you can easily share from nk Bubble to other apps. st drag the bubble to the floating share button pick the app or service you want to send the link to. The page can also be dumped into your favorite stard browser app if the limited feature set of nk Bubble isn’t cutting it.

Browse better with Chrome Beta

For those times when you need a full browser with system privileges, Chrome is a much better app on Android than it once was. th a few tweaks, you can make it even better, though. You should probably grab Chrome Beta from ay. It’s just as solid as the stable release, but you’ll get all the cool new features improvements first.

First, go into your Chrome settings find bwidth management. If you haven’t opted into ’s data compression network, now is the time to toggle that setting On. This will compress HTT(not HTT) webpages by streamlining the code replacing the images with smaller webp files. That should get pages loading a bit faster, but only some of Chrome’s settings are available from the stard menus.

To really dig in make Chrome faster, you’ll need to set some flags by typing chrome://flags/ in the omnibox. The page that loads will contain dozens of lines with esoteric names sometimes amusing descriptions. Changing flags might cause stability issues, but you can always reset the app if things get weird.

One fairly safe change is the #max-tiles-for-interest-area flag. Find that entry change it from the default to 512. This will make Chrome noticeably faster at rendering pages, but it will use more RAM. You’ll also want to toggle #enable-offline-mode, which keeps pages stored in cache when there is no internet connection. If you’re feeling adventurous, toggle #enable-spdy4a2 to use ’s experimental networking protocol. It has the potential to make supported pages load much faster, but it also has the capacity to blow up in your face.

Save multi-page articles to cket

There are several great page-saving services like Instapaper Readability, but cket is uniquely suited to improving your browsing experience. cket has a bit of a leg up on its competitors because the Android app is excellent it’s very good at extracting multi-page content. Many websites arbitrarily split up articles on multiple pages to pump up the view count, but the problem is even worse on mobile devices. Many mobile web sites segment stories even further, requiring you to constantly mash “next” buttons that are conveniently located right next to ads.

cket plugs into the Android sharing menu, so if you happen upon a long article, or something split up into multiple pages, simply share to cket. The content will be extracted cleaned up for you to read whenever you want without any page turning. cket also has a ton of great features like tagging, offline caching, immersive mode on Android 4.4. If you’re using nk Bubble as described above, one of the sharing bubbles can be set to send a page directly to cket, making it even easier to save long-form content in a more readable format.

Follow these easy guidelines you’ll be gobbling up information on your phone faster than ever. Unlike a lot of Android tweaks, this one doesn’t come with any real drawbacks—it’s all win.