Chrome slow to load webpage(s) on startup

[Tom DWC]

I was wondering if anybody else has had this problem.

I have a fast connection and Chrome loads webpages very quickly, apart from on startup. I have about 6 tabs set to open and it takes about 5 seconds after the browser launches for them to load.

I did find a solution by turning automatically detect LAN settings to off in Internet Options, but this causes an annoying pop-up to appear when certain applications access the net, and seems to cause other issues with random webpages failing to load or timing out. But it did solve the startup delay.

Anyone found a workaround?

I would just change browsers but Google apps seem to be sneakily taking over my life and it's really convenient to have everything synced across all devices. Maybe I'm starting to get set in my ways.

 

[ubuysa]

I wonder if it's one of your extensions? You might try disabling all your extensions and see whether Chrome starts faster? If it does then a process of elimination should find the problem extension. What you do then depends on how important the extension is to you!

 

[Tom DWC]

I wonder if it's one of your extensions? You might try disabling all your extensions and see whether Chrome starts faster? If it does then a process of elimination should find the problem extension. What you do then depends on how important the extension is to you!

I only have a few, gave that a go but no joy unfortunately.

 

[vanthus]

Have you tried clearing browsing data,cache etc,I know this wil probably clear tabs as well.but maybe worth a try.

 

[Boozad]

I get exactly the same with Firefox when I first run that, it takes a few seconds for Google to load up. I can click a bookmark and that will load immediately, but if you just wait for Firefox to do its thing loading a predefined page on startup it takes a while.

 

[ubuysa]

I only have a few, gave that a go but no joy unfortunately.

Ok, something else you might try is to go into Settings and disable "Predict Network Actions to improve page load performance". That fetches every link on every page and may well slow you down on startup with a lot of tabs open at startup

If all else fails you could rename (or delete) your User data folder (it's under Users....\AppData\Local) after backing up your bookmarks. When you restart Chrome it will build a new User Data folder and populate it with defaults. You can then import your bookmarks, though you'll have to install your extensions again.

 

[tom_gr7]

I found chrome was really annoying.. I'd type say www.pcs.co.uk in, and chrome would google it, not take me to the actual website. Which was terribly annoying.

I switched to Firefox ages ago and never looked back

 

[Tom DWC]

Cheers for all of this, gonna give it a go now.

 

[Tom DWC]

Thanks all, tried everything but no luck, I also removed all pages but one (Google) though it still has the same problem, a noticeable delay on launch. IE10 is virtually instant in comparison.

So I think I'm going to just switch, not like there isn't plenty of competition. Might even give IE10 a whirl, I'm not somebody who installs loads of add-ons, prefer minimalistic, and it really does seem to be a really able browser these days.