Comments on: Google releases Chrome browser, slow for some

By: tom moles

tom moles — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:20:46 +0000

for some reason this browser is the slowest browser i have ever used. Like 98 explorer statues… if anyone knows why let me know

By: wbeard6142

wbeard6142 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:45:08 +0000

It is so slow……Firefox has memory leaks, Chrome is slow. Microsoft is getting their way because IE seems better and better

By: Name

Name — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:59:41 +0000

oh and i tried the dns fix mentioned that made it worse. it is nice and light-looking but runs like its having a heart attack.

By: Name

Name — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:52:41 +0000

It started out fast a couple weeks ago and now at first load up it takes about4x longer to display a page than firefox. i didnt change anything or update it or mess with it just one day it took like 5 seconds to display my homepage-google and then it has stayed tha way ever since.firefox is instantaneous i run them both.

By: Name

Name — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:59:41 +0000

oh and i tried the dns fix mentioned that made it worse. it is nice and light-looking but runs like its having a heart attack.

By: Name

Name — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:52:41 +0000

By: Avalon

Avalon — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:32:29 +0000

I have been using it for a while however, in a amazing touch of irony, the most used pages that comes up when you open a new tab. If I try to open google from there it takes forever and just locks the entire browser. Other sites load just fine and google loads perfectly in other browsers.
I guess it is like that joke from some random TV show “If you google google you can break the internet.”

By: thomase

thomase — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:03:23 +0000

I was a hardcore google chrome fanboy. It was faster than blazing hell and I loved it. All of a sudden google with their incredibly stupid we-don't-inform-you-that-your-browser-is-updating program updated me to version 2.0. It was so slow that I thought my connection was bad. I literally thought that my router finally kicked the bucket. But low and behold Firefox runs at break-neck pace. I now pray for the day that Chrome is fast again on my computer because I love google and the original program pre-suckage.

By: Aaron Traffas

Aaron Traffas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:28:55 +0000

The version of Chrome in the developer channel is now at 3.0.195.1 and I've been using it for a few days. It seems to be quick and responsive. You can switch to the pre-release versions here:

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-ch...

By: ok

ok — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:15:20 +0000

i have been using it a lot but all of a sudden now it's going really really slowly for some reason

By: Eze

Eze — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:36:47 +0000

Chrome was fast at first, but this shtuff slowed WAY down after using it as my default browser. I suspect Big Brother is peekin in more often now on my internet navigation.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:56:33 +0000

Google Chrome is very slow to load and navigate. What's the problem here?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:54:07 +0000

I have the problem that it comes back ALOT saying the the website has returned null, normally after only a very short amount of time, granted i am using a fairly laggy broadbad connection i.e. 150ish ms ping to a speedtest server in the same city as me, but still is not good enuf with laggy connections

By: Q

Tue, 26 May 2009 20:42:22 +0000

I have tried Chrome. Looks like I will be going back to Firefox, because it takes a long time for pages to load with chrome.

By: Uneeke1

Uneeke1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:45:53 +0000

I am also finding that Chrome takes a long time to resolve the proxy before displaying content

By: Topkat

Topkat — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:00:56 +0000

Google Chrome runs PAINFULLY slow for me. IE8 blows it out of the water and so does FF. I'm getting rid of it.

By: collardsx2

collardsx2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:23:11 +0000

Chrome was fast initially, but isn't so fast anymore. I'm not sure what's happened … i have two Vista computers … the same on both. i'm disappointed

By: hgfxdfgsdsdsd

hgfxdfgsdsdsd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:07:42 +0000

Fire fox sucks. Google chrom is so slow i thought it was going to be fast but now i just use normal google

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:01:14 +0000

I downloaded chrome and it was very fast for the first week. Then suddenly it went very very slow. Anything up to an hour to download a page. Back to using firefox all the time now.

By: wk

wk — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:52:48 +0000

Google browser is slow in loading pages………

By: Aaron Traffas

Aaron Traffas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:20:49 +0000

What happens when you try to view Hotmail or TheWeatherNetwork? I can see Microsoft using browser detection to prevent Chrome users from accessing Hotmail, but I'll be it has something to do with JavaScript. I noticed that some of the JavaScript I've used at work didn't work properly with Chrome tonight but it worked flawlessly with IE.

By: Aaron Traffas

Aaron Traffas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:01:36 +0000

I agree that it was fun at first. The problem I found with it is that it prompts you to resubmit every form-generated page when you hit the back button. I haven't found a way to turn off that prompting like you can with IE.

By: Stevozoid

Stevozoid — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:26:10 +0000

I can't figure it out. Chrome is slower than FireFox. Not to mention the bugginess. I can't view Hotmail or TheWeatherNetwork with this thing. It is sexy…but where's all this lightweight speed I keep hearing so much about? Suggestions? Perhaps it has something to do with resolving my proxy?

By: nikolai

nikolai — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:12:48 +0000

first it worked like a dream, after i while, i had some speed troubles

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:51:15 +0000

This helped me. Perhaps this could help you too http://www.paulbenetis.com/2008/09/02/improve-g...

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:43:02 +0000

Its crawling on my machine (Dell D620). It appears that it caches large amount of data and lacks recycling this cache. As a result, in trying to load a cached page from a LARGE cache the time taken is more than what it would to just get it from the damn web-server. This is ridiculous.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:33:36 +0000

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

By: Sean B

Sean B — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:07:25 +0000

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?

By: Ilya

Ilya — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:07:33 +0000

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!

By: Sandman

Sandman — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:44:43 +0000

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.