[SOLVED] chromium and chrome slow on initial page loading.

kokoko3k · 2015-06-14 11:55:26

I'm trying chromium and chrome on an old eeepc 1005ha.
Till now i used firefox, but i just tried chromium, latest version, and it shines on page scrolling and responsitivity.
But there is a problem with the initial page loading; on this poor machine, i can notice at least a 3 seconds lag from the moment i type the url to the time the page is displayed.
It is not a network issue, because the lag is there even if i browse light websites like this forums or local urls like "file:///empty dir"
This doesn't happen with firefox.

I can say for sure that the issue was not present with an old build of chrome (34), but as soon as i updated to 43 it happened.

So for light websites firefox is faster, but for heavier ones, chrome/ium wins.

Is there something that could be done? i already tried to start with a clean profile, disable prefetching and hw acceleration without any success.

Thanks.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2015-06-23 08:15:35)

kokoko3k · 2015-06-23 08:15:23

It turned out to be a gpu issue, mine is an integrated intel gen2.
disabling gpu acceleration via command line (--disable-gpu-compositing) fixed; no "gui" flags helped anyway.

EDIT:
Using gallium drivers instead of the intel ones did the trick as well.

Last edited by kokoko3k (2015-06-23 08:19:41)

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#1 2015-06-14 11:55:26

[SOLVED] chromium and chrome slow on initial page loading.

#2 2015-06-23 08:15:23

Re: [SOLVED] chromium and chrome slow on initial page loading.

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