Chrome gif kills performance

[+therealDamien Subscriber¹]

I like using chrome but going to sites that show alot of gifs cause chrome to lag really bad.

 

firefox is great for me when browsing sites with gifs.

 

it gets so bad in chrome that the page wont even scroll

 

 

my specs

 

intel 3770k

nvidia 780

16gb mem

 

windows 8.1

 

chrome 64bit beta, also tested 32bit.

 

firefox and waterfox. no problem. only problem html5 videos get stuck on buffering or only plays sound.

[svmpatel]

Cheezburger by any chance?  I get the same as you on that site.

[User6060]

maybe try 

1) about:flags

2) Enable : Impl-side painting Mac, Windows, 
If enabled, painting is done on a separate thread instead of the main thread

[svmpatel]

I'll give that a shot... Thanks.  Will report back :)

[svmpatel]

Well...  That actually helped a fair bit.  Thanks :)

[+therealDamien Subscriber¹]

ok my problem is different. I should of explained better.

 

that in chrome gifs take too long to load causing problems when scrolling. 

 

 

when Im browsing random funny pictures thread. I cant even scroll. I wait for couple minutes. then it will scroll freely

 

 

firefox loads the random funny pictures thread fast.

[Boo Berry]

Yeah, it'll do that if Impl-side painting isn't enabled in Chrome's flags. When enabled, I can free scroll without issues or lag in the random pictures thread.

[taim]

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/impl-side-painting

 

It sounds like it should improve your situation once it's stable. It still has lots of parts not implemented yet.

 

Also have you tried disabling hardware acceleration, might be a GPU/driver issue with Chrome.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Thanks, been having this issue too, also terrible stability issues with my ATi HD 5450, with the latest AMD Catalyst drivers (in the v14 range) the driver crashes frequently and I've even had video freeze across the top of my screen :/ only way to get rid of it is to log off and on again in Windows.

 

ATM I am just thinking of swapping it out for my Nvidia 560 GTX, the only reason I used the ATi in my new build was for lower power consumption, because I don't game anymore and don't really need the NVidia card and extra noise the fans make. I may look online a bit more for the issue I am having with the ATi card.

[Boo Berry]

The 14.9 drivers are horrible - I personally still use the 14.7 RC3 drivers until its addressed.

[Steven P. Administrators]

The 14.9 drivers are horrible - I personally still use the 14.7 RC3 drivers until its addressed.

Yeah that's what I'm using (14.9) but their uninstaller is also really bad, it just reinstalls the latest driver again lol.

[Boo Berry]

Look into Display Driver Uninstaller as it works great for display driver upgrades/downgrades/clean installs. :D

[Steven P. Administrators]

Done and back to the Windows Update drivers :)

[Designby]

drive web sites go downloand and setup no problem

[+therealDamien Subscriber¹]

I found out that by disabling chromes builtin flashplayer pepperflash,helped with slow loading gifs.

 

which dont make sense seeing flash player dont play gifs, am I correct?

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I found out that by disabling chromes builtin flashplayer pepperflash,helped with slow loading gifs.

 

which dont make sense seeing flash player dont play gifs, am I correct?

 

Yeah... It doesn't make sense.

 

I also found on Google when searching loading gif issue about this solution. e.g.; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16874065/gif-images-in-chrome-loading-slow-and-or-other-problems

 

Although Lifehacker aslo mention this addon: http://lifehacker.com/gif-delayer-eliminates-choppy-animations-to-play-gifs-a-1528157941

 

Didn't try it yet though...