Google Chrome

[coolVariable]

I used to love google chrome as a browser ... but over the last 6 months it has changed from a sleek and fast browser to an incredible system hog that can't even open 5+ tabs concurrently without grinding the whole system to a halt.
Arrrggggh!

 

[pcslookout]

I used to love google chrome as a browser ... but over the last 6 months it has changed from a sleek and fast browser to an incredible system hog that can't even open 5+ tabs concurrently without grinding the whole system to a halt.
Arrrggggh!

Are you being serious ? If so I am surprised because I didn't think it got that bad but that is what I been hearing all over the internet. Sucks if true. Haven't tried it on in a while on the backup system.

 

[StageLeft]

It's my primary browser now. It does sometimes have shockwave crash errors, though and I STILL cannot FVCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKING stand its obsession with dropping cookies for my banking apps and it does it on various systems. I still use it, though as a primary only because it's much faster than the others. New tabs are like BOOM that thing is UP. No dicking around like IE and firefox taking an hour to open a new tab.

 

[coolVariable]

Are you being serious ? If so I am surprised because I didn't think it got that bad but that is what I been hearing all over the internet. Sucks if true. Haven't tried it on in a while on the backup system.

I really like the look et al but I am about to dump it.
That's how bad it is.

 

[pcslookout]

I really like the look et al but I am about to dump it.
That's how bad it is.

Ok. I only seen only one browser, so far, that doesn't grind the whole system to a halt and seems to always give back memory it has used after closing out of the website(s) without having to restart the whole browser again.

 

[Phobic9]

Hmm I just dumped Firefox for Chrome for the same reasons (bloated). Granted I did have a few extensions with FF that could've caused the slowdowns and issues but I'm liking Chrome for the moment.

 

[Nothinman]

Works fine here in Windows and Linux.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I find it's faster then Firefox. It does eat up lot of ram, but seems to do so efficiently, if that makes sense... with firefox I used to start to get weird system wide memory issues when firefox was open too long. No errors, just, certain windows would not open, sometimes buttons would be missing etc... it seemed to eat up all the GDI memory which is used for drawing windows and such. It's weird to open task manager and it's just a blank window lol.

 

[CurseTheSky]

It works fine for me. I've had it running with 10+ tabs regularly with no slow downs. If you're loading many, many pages with flash (ads or movies), such as 5+ YouTube videos, perhaps that's causing a problem.

 

[pcslookout]

It works fine for me. I've had it running with 10+ tabs regularly with no slow downs. If you're loading many, many pages with flash (ads or movies), such as 5+ YouTube videos, perhaps that's causing a problem.

I sometimes have 5 to 10 + youtube pages open. Why is this a bad thing to do ?

 

[Nothinman]

I sometimes have 5 to 10 + youtube pages open. Why is this a bad thing to do ?

Because Flash sucks and will eventually kill virtually anything it's run under?

 

[pcslookout]

Because Flash sucks and will eventually kill virtually anything it's run under?

Then there should be an alternative to adobe flash then. Would this work ? I always thought about doing this but never thought it would work. Don't install flash but whenever I need to watch a flash youtube video or any flash video. Download it first then play it with vlc or km player.

To bad the vlc integrated web player doesn't work for youtube, etc. It should.

 

[Nothinman]

Then there should be an alternative to adobe flash then. Would this work ? I always thought about doing this but never thought it would work. Don't install flash but whenever I need to watch a flash youtube video or any flash video. Download it first then play it with vlc or km player.

To bad the vlc integrated web player doesn't work for youtube, etc. It should.

People are already working on one called Gnash and I think I read that it works ok with things like youtube videos but more complex sites, games, etc still don't work. Nor do I know if it works on Windows at all.

 

[syrillus]

Then there should be an alternative to adobe flash then. Would this work ? I always thought about doing this but never thought it would work. Don't install flash but whenever I need to watch a flash youtube video or any flash video. Download it first then play it with vlc or km player.

To bad the vlc integrated web player doesn't work for youtube, etc. It should.

HTML 5 allows embedded videos without the need for Flash. Youtube already has a beta preview for HTML 5, but only some videos work on it currently.

 

[coolVariable]

HTML 5 allows embedded videos without the need for Flash. Youtube already has a beta preview for HTML 5, but only some videos work on it currently.

It's definitely a Chrome issue since I tried the plugin where it disables all flash, unless you enable/approve it.

 

[inspiron]

hmmm... yesterday I downloaded chrome and I love it. Mainly becuz there is more screen space, also it just feels fresh compared to firefox. I absolutely hated IE...

 

[coolVariable]

hmmm... yesterday I downloaded chrome and I love it. Mainly becuz there is more screen space, also it just feels fresh compared to firefox. I absolutely hated IE...

Good luck. That's how I felt ... for 1-2 months. it's downhill form there until it essentially "stops" your laptop when you open multiple tabs.

(and did I mention the 15GB in temp internet files chrome generated?)