Make Chrome great again: Performance and memory tweaks

[Raoul Duke]

Poor web page loading caused me move from Edge browser to Chrome, but I found text extremely blurry.
Might try again with 'remove font smoothing' and/or Google Chrome extenstion: Font Rendering Enhancer
My system has plenty of resources to spare so I'm not worried there.

 

[Jack007]

Chrome will never make it back. it was built too buggy with too many data stealing backdoor components that people are unaware of. chrome will suffer the same demise as internet explorer. when its gone its gone for good

 

[MarkHughes]

"Make Chrome Run Faster and Keep RAM Usage Under Control"


Shouldn't this be directed at the developers rather than the users ?

 

[Andrew Toth]

I've had the solution for years. I don't use it. Installed it twice, didn't like it, and uninstalled it. The 2 or 3 times it SNEAKILY installed itself, I uninstalled it as soon as I found out, "It's BACK!" Use Edge, IE11, Opera & Vivaldi. Have Firefox installed, but RARELY use it, because, the others work well for me. Give Vivaldi a try. It uses the same rendering engine as Chrome, and was created by the former CEO of Opera. It's really a nice browser. With Opera THEMES, you can get hundreds, even ANIMATED (waterfalls, snowing, running streams, blowing trees, ocean waves, etc.) THEMES. Really cool! They show full page on the Speed Dial page.

 

[fktech]

Thanks. Firefox user here, but I'll be trying Chrome with OneTab and The Great Suspender. Firefox is expected to move to one process per tab in the future, so there will be one fewer reason for me to keep it.

I open 20-25 tabs at a time so Firefox is planning to ruin a good thing....

Concur!

 

[fktech]

Timely article.

Chrome is fine on a mobile device but Firefox is superior on a desktop.

 

[Tanstar]

Chrome will never make it back. it was built too buggy with too many data stealing backdoor components that people are unaware of. chrome will suffer the same demise as internet explorer. when its gone its gone for good

You mean, when it's gone it comes back renamed Edge?

 

[Joe Blow]

Where do you turn off the feature in Chrome where it blocks or tries to block alternative media? You know, where it calls news Google doesn't like as "fake"?

 

[Whyname]

Chrome will never make it back. it was built too buggy with too many data stealing backdoor components that people are unaware of. chrome will suffer the same demise as internet explorer. when its gone its gone for good

Stop looking at those Porn Sites!!!!

 

[Whyname]

Where do you turn off the feature in Chrome where it blocks or tries to block alternative media? You know, where it calls news Google doesn't like as "fake"?

Where do you turn off the feature in Chrome where it blocks or tries to block alternative media? You know, where it calls news Google doesn't like as "fake"?

Stop looking at those Porn Sites!!!

 

[gamerk2]

Speaking as a Software Engineer:

Using multiple processes shouldn't be necessary for performance reasons. There's no reason why the same type of page isolation can't be done via threading. To me, using multiple processes was a hack to work around Win32 Address Space limitations [4GB total per PROCESS, not to mention to 2GB User Address Space limitation] more then anything else.

Make a native 64-bit executable and make each page a separate thread. The main Chrome process will exist as a separate thread, and Chrome will remain running as long as that thread is activated. This thread will also handle all the UI/Messaging, so if a tab is slow for whatever reason the user can still close it [the slow tab won't block UI inputs to close the tab]. Simple.

If Google can't do this, then their code is basically a pile and should be discarded and re-written properly.

 

[JamesSWD]

I would use Chrome more if only they would add the warning about closing multiple tabs, like every other browser has.

 

[Jack007]

Stop looking at those Porn Sites!!!!

no kidding but chrome is really scrappy software. not even worth mentioning

 

[Jack007]

You mean, when it's gone it comes back renamed Edge?

nah as in gone for good. and up pops an innovative new company that creates some stellar browser that takes chromes share in the market

 

[HyperPete]

Try Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com). I like it better than Chrome. It too is based off Chrome, but the tweaks improve it a lot.

 

[SuperVeloce]

Try Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com). I like it better than Chrome. It too is based off Chrome, but the tweaks improve it a lot.

I like it too. Many of the features are from pre-chromium Opera era and I must say I missed those.

 

[turismozilla]

Chrome devs got cocky, stopped listening, went rogue. Vivaldi looks promising.

 

[BaelRathLian]

Here's a new one for me. I stopped using chrome on my PC when I upgraded to win 10 pro. Just recently I installed it. ALL OF THE TABS are constantly reloading when ever I am running multi tabs. RAM is not an issue. I have more than enough RAM to handle chrome (64 bit), IE, and edge running at the same time. So here is the question. What is the malfunction with the newest chrome? I have done a sys chk and it is not my rig.