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I just installed Chrome today, September 12th, 2008. I have an ADSL Interlaced connection that averages 2582 kbps with an average PING of 40ms. This is very consistent and on a stable connection.

Google Chrome loads web pages very, very slow.

-I would estimate 20% of pages never load at all, before they time out, or I receive a Google page claiming “This webpage is not available” or that “It appears to be a broken link.” Of course, they aren’t broken links and a refresh normally loads them successfully.

-I would estimate that 60% of pages load very, very slowly, taking 5 to 10 times longer to load than Firefox or IE. Load speeds are typical of a 56k dial up modem. The page will be blank for 30+ seconds, then parts of it will pop up, and over the next 30 seconds, some images and text appear. Then the page either takes another 30 seconds to complete the loading (approaching 2 minutes load time) or it stops loading with only a partially loaded page.

-The remaining 20% of the time, web pages pop up almost instantly. Faster than any pages have ever loaded on Firefox or IE.

-Also noted, the spell check feature does not work properly. Often for mis-spelled words, there is not a correction suggested upon right click–even when words are one simple letter off.

Honestly, i don’t know what’s wrong with Chrome and I don’t see any reason I should spend hours in over-my-head tech stuff, trying to fix what they did wrong to begin with. if my settings are off, it’s because they didn’t program Chrome to set them upon installation. But my settings have always worked great with Firefox, IE and Opera.

So I thin they messed something up, Chrome is very, very slow and not fast like you all claim.

@warren - Hi, Warren, thanks for posting your experience. I’m getting a lot of traffic from search engines with queries like “Chrome is slow” and “Chrome java slow” so it seems you’re not the only one having problems with it.

I’ve noticed it being a memory hog, with each tab using 20-30 MB or more, it’s easy to use up all available physical memory in a hurry. Hopefully future releases will do a better job with speed and memory management.

I too am finding Chrome very slow to load pages. The bottom bar says resolving proxy… Some pages don’t load at all. what’s up?

@David -
I’ve noticed the hang when it says resolving proxy. Google Chrome does something called DNS pre-fetching where it will actually translate the domain name of places it thinks you might go into IP addresses so it has those addresses ready should you decide to go there. It’s supposed to save a quarter of a second each time you tell the browser to go to a different page, but I’ve wondered if this practice could have something to do with the hang-up when it says resolving proxy.

I recently found a suggestion in a Google Chrome forum. Try going to the Google Chrome Options and, in the ‘Under the Hood’ tab under the ‘Security’ section, un-check the ‘Enable phishing and malware protection’ option and see if you get a speed increase after reboot. My copies of Chrome still seem to be pretty speedy, so I can’t test this work-around. If you do, post back here so we can know that there is a fix for Chrome being slow.

@ Aaron-
I tried your suggestion with the un-check the Enable phishing and malware protection and it did not make a difference. Do you have any other suggestion?
The pages load really slow, this is nothing close to IE. They often come up broken. I don’t want to knock Google, but for beta version this is not good.

@Olivier -
Unfortunately, I don’t have any other suggestions. I wonder if perhaps the lackluster performance and slowness of Google Chrome is causing its reported drop in market share. It’s now behind Safari in the browser rankings. I’m finding it tough to use because you can’t backup through forms and the spell check doesn’t work very well.

Used to use Chrome… but after so many times when I found I could open Firefox, load my desired page, and close it again before Chrome even finished its load that had started first?

Chrome’s not ready for my prime time.

For all those “slow” comments, i found that 1 day i needed to set my proxy because of the connection i was using.. Before this i was running very fast. Once i moved connections and forgot to clear the proxy i was crawling! I mean pages took minutes to load on a fast connection. Once i turned off the proxy it was back to normal!

Yes, Google Chrome runs very slow. I went back and forth between Chrome and Firefox. Chrome is a super turtle. Firefox crashes on my banking website so I am looking for a new browser. Only Netscape worked and that is gone I guess. Internet Explorer gives the classic error message everyone is getting and it sounds complicated to fix (something in the registry maybe), who the heck is going to do that???!!!! Suggestions please?

@Sean B -
You might be sure you’ve installed the latest Java 10 release candidate. It may fix Chrome on your banking site.