Google Chrome being really (and I mean REALLY) SLOW

[Danzas4321]

Hey guys. I've been a Chrome user for nearly two years, but recently I'm having a big issue. Every time i open the browser it struggles to even open the home page or tabs like the settings. Its not my internet, as i have about 25Mbps down and 7 up. Other browsers are working fine, but I prefer Chrome!

 

[mkirkwag]

I went to http/www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html and increased the storage for flash. It was set at a 100kb...

Thank you! That helped a lot! I've read the hardware acceleration and duplicate flash tips a zillion times, but never seen this before.

 

[rollandrock]

I was using chrome during the long period. I even do not remember when I started. But this spring chrome is surprising me all the time. Month ago I had a problem with flash videos like youtube, sometimes it worked but sometimes did not.

During this month regulary I had the issue from this topic BUT everytime I reboot chrome it started to work correctly. Today it didn't work at all. I turned the laptop on and the chrome after a few seconds siad "the chrome is not responding". Even after rebooting the programm I had the same result.

Yesterday chrome offered new update. I thought it is related but what I see from the current topic it's the old issue. Anyway in my case I saw this problem just after the last update.

First I clear the browser's catch and history.
Then I reboot system.
Then I rescan my sys disc on the viruses.
But it did not help me.

Thanks for this topic I disabled hardware acceleration. Now it works. But why? what's the reason of it?

16 gb RAM, ssd and i7 proc. When I was younger I thought more memory helps to avoid programm freezing
I have never been so wrong.

 

[anacebuyer]

I agree. I've been a huge Chrome user for years, but the past few months it's performance has become erratic. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, removed extensions and plugins, cleared the caches, etc, but the problems get worse and worse. Recent symptoms are ugly, like 2-3 minute delays for downloads to start from Gmail or from browser links, and similar bizarre delays trying to attach documents to Gmail. I have an i7 quad core laptop with 16 GB of memory running Win 8.1. Firefox suddenly is working much faster than Chrome, just the opposite of all my past testing! What's up with that, Google? There has to be a design bug. My hunch: Google has started threading all/most tabs through a finite number of "engines" or "services." That's what Firefox and IE were doing. The result was the other browsers had a single large-memory and CPU-hogging program, while Google had dozens and dozens of smaller processes running. WIndows 8.1 seemed more nimble time-slicing many smaller processes compared with single mammoth processes. Call me crazy, that that's what I'm seeing!

 

[mustangman311]

Chrome is really really really really SLOW for the last 15-20 days in my Windows 10 Tech Preview (desktop mode). I've 50Mbps always from comcast, still youtube is slow, netflix is slow (though it works fine in my xbox one), even google maps is slow, daily motion is slow. simple google search is also slow. i've checked for anti virus none, checked unwanted plugins none, no extn running in chrome. Not sure y chrome had become so slow, been using it since it came several yrs ago. really annoying.

pathetic thing is its a new laptop with 32GB RAm, NVidia 770 GTX card, i7 proc, Intel SSD. Nothing else from hardware or connection wise. BTW, chrome is fast in my iPad or Note 3. Only from this laptop is slow. So, I feel Chrome has some serious issue with Win 10 Tech Preview side.

As suggested, I've uninstalled BitDefender and disabled H/W acceleration, will post an update how it works after these 2 changes.

H!, I had this problem: Only Google services (Search, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, etc) were slow in Chrome. Other pages were working at normal speed.
The fix is to disable QUIC Protocol:
1 - Go to "chrome/flags"
2 - Ctrl+F and search for QUIC
3 - Turn it to disable.
4 - Restart chrome.

I tried disabling hardware acceleration and extensions and the browser's responsiveness got a bit better, but disabling QUIC solved the issue with tabs just... sort of... sitting there. Had the issue with Google services, Facebook, Twitter, even Chrome's internal Settings page. Anyway, this fix is much appreciated.

 

[Bonedrum]

Thank you for this, I've think I've tried every solution on the board and this appears to have solved the problem. Still slow, still considering abandoning chrome, but at least I can download an alternative without it hanging!

 

[Canucklehead1]

I have you tried simply "refreshing" the home page ?

 

[figgyroo]

After months and months of this problem and different "fixes", on different computers no less, I think I have found the solution! I just went to advanced settings and reset them. Simple. I had to log back in, which usually was the trigger of the lag, and everything loads quickly. I don't know if this is a temporary thing, but seems to have resolved it for now.

 

[Alee89]

Hi ... I have the same problem and i'm telling you , i did everything ... like update google chrome , disabling hardware acc , clearing history and catches , using Chromium version of google chrome , Resetting Settings and etc ... But ! No Success ... Fortunately i discovered that this problem is definitely related to Google Account and signing in as a user and making a "Person" in the "Setting Page" that Recognize and sync your Bookmarks , Contact List and etc ... i'm pretty sure about this because i checked the performance before i try to signing in to my Gmail Account and it had a normal function , the second i signed in ... everything got crazy and Slow ... So far , i couldn't Solve this problem ... i'm using Firefox for now till someone come up with a a good solution .

 

[bostonkhed617]

Disabling Hardware Acceleration in the Advanced settings helped me. It has improved 10 fold. I think someone else here actually posted this answer too-- just further reassuring that it's what worked for me as an avid chrome user. Settings> Advanced Settings > Scroll all the way to the bottom. Should be a checkbox. http/i.imgur.com/EMCIBnD.png?1

First time ever posting here... anyways this worked like a charm. Before I did this, the google searches were terribly slow. Same for my gmail and google maps. Sometimes the sites would just time out on me. I originally didn't have much problems with any other sites. Thanks for providing a fix!

 

[k8bek]

mine has been exactaly the same! iv done a system refresh on my laptop, reinstalled 8.1 and it was the same. However, have just disabed the norton chrome toolbar and its ok again now!

 

[Andee63uk]

After days of trying all the fixes on TomsGuide and other sites with no luck. I decided what the hell, I have nothing to lose, so I decided to delete everything in the google chrome user folder. Surprisingly this seems to have worked for me.

Close Google Chrome, Open file explorer and locate the folder UserData @ C:\Users\[YourUserName]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data

Delete everything inside it. Chrome will rebuild the folder when you reopen it. When you reopen chrome you will need to re login to google.

This for now has worked for me.

 

[Mark Bannon]

I took Microsoft OneDrive off of the startup list, and that solved the speed issues with Chrome I've had since the Windows 10 update.

 

[Shady899]

To anyone encountering similar issues... try disabling hardware acceleration.... it was a tenfold improvement for me on my laptop.

To disable it... type "chrome:settings" in the address bar, click Advanced Settings, then uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" under the System header. Close all open Chrome browser instances and restart Chrome.

Chrome had always ran really well for me.... until rather recently. This seemed to fix my biggest problem of late. Give it a shot and let me know... curious how it works for others. Not sure why HW acceleration seems to be the culprit, nor what exactly changed that caused this issue.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!!! This definitely helped me!! I am watching Twitch live streams, well just one, but I also have multiple tabs open and quite a bit of programs open. When I play simple games while watching streams too it just lags too much and I cannot to both!! I went from having literally 90% to 100% CPU usage at all times!!!!! Now I have ONLY 45% to 80% (AT MOST) and I am SO VERY THANKFUL!! You are the man!! EVERYONE should try this fix first before anything else!!

 

[truesilver]

To anyone encountering similar issues... try disabling hardware acceleration.... it was a tenfold improvement for me on my laptop.

To disable it... type "chrome:settings" in the address bar, click Advanced Settings, then uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" under the System header. Close all open Chrome browser instances and restart Chrome.

Chrome had always ran really well for me.... until rather recently. This seemed to fix my biggest problem of late. Give it a shot and let me know... curious how it works for others. Not sure why HW acceleration seems to be the culprit, nor what exactly changed that caused this issue.

Seriously, this has been driving me mental for a year. Jeff, you're a freaking genius and I am so entirely grateful that I would like to donate a tenner to your chosen charity or your beer fund. You realise that people have been struggling with this on the Chrome bug reports for over a year?

Jeff, contact me via Twitter @truesilveruk and I'll donate via Paypal.

 

[John Kleitz]

A program deactivator like the one in Tune-up Utilities frees system resources. I prefer Chrome to everything else. my Firefox often crashes with no apparent reason, so Chrome is the most stable browser I know.

 

[Lee-m]

You could upgrade to firefox
when you think about it, i do get weird viewster popups every now and again. how can you disable these?

I already gave you one thing to check.

as for chrome its self, I don't know, I don't use it, nor have I ever. I should think its menu (however it works), would have an option to manage addons.

 

[Lee-m]

next thing to check then is that the proxy and network settings in chrome have not been altered. Again I cant tell you how, I dont use chrome. It should be set to auto, or system default.

 

[MarkXXL]

I've experienced this problem in over than 20 computers since I work in computers maintenance and lucky me I discovered that the fix of this problem is that one of the cooling system fans ( CPU fan, GPU fan and PSU fan ) is simply not working well or broken; and after fixing this cooling problem; Google Chrome worked perfectly, so check your computer cooling fans.

 

[Lee-m]

Honestly I am not sure why you are giving Chrome advice if you have not used it and all of your answers end in "I don't know, I haven't used it". It's counter productive :?

Honestly I don't know why you are leaving comments like this, it really is counter productive and not helpful at all. It is even less helpful to drag out an old thread for no reason. At least I offered suggestions that might help. Unlike your self...

 

[Lee-m]

You could upgrade to firefox

I would suspect an addon, or some sort of sly browser related malware. Check your add/remove programs under control panel, and chromes addons (however they work).