h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I realise that if one googles (other search engines are available..)'chrome slow' you get a similar rash of results as googling 'firefox slow' or 'IE slow', so maybe it's just me... but anyone else here finding chrome taking *ages* to do anything? Ages to start up, ages to open new tabs, ages to close down.. It also tends to freeze the whole browser whilst opening links..

Upon switching back to firefox, everything happens instantly again the way a modern browser should. I originally switched from firefox because it was slow, now it seems lightening fast. and yes I regularily clear the cash and other housekeeping stuff.

Anyone else noticed this?

Chrome is a little slower than usual, but not by much.

One forum suggested switching off the 'phishing scanning' option, which scans every page. I think it helped, a bit Anyhow, my default browser is now firefox. I'll retry chrome in a year or two to see if it's improved.

I've been using chrome more or less constantly since it launched around 2008, so it's quite a big deal for me to get used to another browser again, but there's only so much fiddling under the bonnet i'm prepared to do to get such a basic tool as a browser, to work properly. ho hum.

Safari's fine.

nothing wrong with my chrome

yeah, well I used to be unbearably smug about being a chrome-user, but now... , I just feel like a fool and a loser for ever believing all the 'chrome is fast' hype

It's probably some obscure interplay between an add-on or extension within my particular operating environment and I could probably try disabling things one at a time to try to track down the problem... I could, but life being too short and all that, and the availability of other browsers... Just wondered if anyone else on 'ere had similar issues. Evidently not!

I've always found Chrome very fast, but I haven't used it recently.

Not having any problems myself. Just benched on a few graphics heavy websites and chromes as quick or quicker (to my eye at least) as Safari, Firefox and IE10

FB

The chrome icon on my launch bar disappeared yesterday and I could
not reach my computer's homepage, the Google Doodle Search page. I had
to search 'google.ca' via IE and that came up as the multi-link 'new tab' page
showing icons for all the google apps including the search page. But I could
not drag it into my quick launch tool bar.

This morning the icon was back but goes directly to my h2g2 homepage.

It's bad enough google presumes everything I put into its search box
before I finish typing but now it figures I only want to visit h2g2.

What's a cyber hunter-gatherer to do?


~jwf~

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Is this the nerd equivalent of pumping iron?