Chrome Page Rendering Slow upon Tab Change

[Smashing Pumpkin]

Sometimes in Chrome when multiple tabs, not necessarily that many, maybe 4 or 5, are open when I switch to the next tab the page just isn't there, even if it loaded minutes ago it seems to take Chrome a while to make sense of it and display it, the tabs are just blank white until the browser catches up and remembers what it's doing.

Does anyone else experience this problem?

Thanks,

Richard.

[Guest]

I do. Actually i have always experienced that problem whatever version I'm using...

[Haptic]

Are you using any extensions?

[Growled Member]

No, I've never had that problem. Check your extensions first and if that doesn't help do a complete uninstall, including an old profiles and then reinstall.

[FlintyV]

I've had this a few times. It normally depends on what site I'm on. If I go on DeviantART with Chrome then it's super-slow so I have to go back to Firefox.

Strange Chrome behaviour.

[ADSfull]

the thing is that chrome make one process to various tabs if you click on "open link in a new tab" you can check on the chrome's task manager (Shift+esc)

[BilliShere]

I had this same problem. It ****ed me off. I guess I'm spoiled by firefox's much better tab handling. pages render instantly when switching tabs even when there are 50 tabs open. However on chrome it lags terribly.

So I looked for a solution and I found it. But I must warn you, chrome IS a RESOURCE HOG, and this fix will only make it eat more resources. My 50+ tabs in chrome now render instantly when switching, but chrome eats a looot more memory. So, if you have less than 3gigs of ram this might not be a good fix for you. Or if your laptop has a loud fan that will goes berserk when it has to do anything strenuous, again not a very good choice to fire up chrome with this fix. Aight. lets get down to business:

Append "--memory-model=high" to the target section in the google chrome shortcut properties page. Close all chrome.exe processes and click the shortcut.

Enjoy your lag-free chrome.

[InterceptorX]

Never had a problem here. Always nice and snappy.

[dead.cell]

Sometimes in Chrome when multiple tabs, not necessarily that many, maybe 4 or 5, are open when I switch to the next tab the page just isn't there, even if it loaded minutes ago it seems to take Chrome a while to make sense of it and display it, the tabs are just blank white until the browser catches up and remembers what it's doing.

Does anyone else experience this problem?

Thanks,

Richard.

What version of Chrome are you using? Which OS also? (32/64-bit)

(and no, never had this issue either across the 20+ different PCs I've worked with)

[soldier1st]

if it's only a few seconds then that is acceptable but if it took say 45+ seconds then that i would consider a problem.

[Ellarnia]

I have the same problem all the time, and I don?t use any extensions...

I've found that firefox is faster if you are a clutter bug like me that usually have multiple tabs open, and chrome to be ?faster or of the same speed? when you have just one tab open.

If I'm just starting up firefox it starts up much faster even if I'm making it open twice as many tabs from a previous saved session, whereas chrome will load some pages and leave others blank as described by posters above. The blank pages eventually will get loaded (for me it is more like 5-10min, definitely not a few sec)

I'm using an average speed computer with 2G of ram and slow internet (cheapest rate timewarner offers in my area)

If I leave chrome open all the time and never close it I don't come across this problem, only when just firing chrome up.

For me chrome uses more total memory and each tab shows up as a different task in task manager whereas firefox just shows up as one task in task manager. The plus side to this is that if you happen to know which instance of chrome is tied to the tab that is bugging up your computer you can terminate just that process without closing all your other chrome tabs, whereas in firefox if you end the task you close every tab. The down side is that if you have some unwanted malware hijacking chrome you can appear to have closed chrome but when you open up task manager you find that some instances of chrome are still running even if they are not displayed on your desktop.

Firefox uses roughly half the memory chrome does(I've tweaked firefox settings and left chrome at default) and has a superior caching system.

I first started using chrome because it would give me the option to save passwords for my mail clients whereas firefox could not at the time(now both does)

I like the ?Recently closed? tabs feature in chrome a lot.

Only thing I still dislike about firefox is that it gradually consumes more and more memory if you leave it open all the time, like me.

oh and for those lucky people with fast internet that have never seen the blank page we?re talking about, below is the what the blank pages says and NO reloading right away does not help, just simply wait a few minuets(get a drink of water, do some stretches, take a biobreak, etc.) then reload. note: obviously when it happens to you it will display some other web address other than mail.google.com

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to mail.google.com

Try reloading the page

Additional suggestions:

Access a cached copy of mail. google. com

Go to google. com

Search on Google:

Google Chrome Help - Why am I seeing this page?

?2010 Google - Google Home

or

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=1eic6yu9oa4y3&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

Here are some suggestions:

Reload this web page later.

More information on this error

[soldier1st]

chrome itself does not use alot of resources but it is the plugins that use alot like flash.