So the problem wasn't Windows, necessarily - it was Chrome. I even went so far as to spend a day working in Firefox, just for sake of comparison. This got aggravating to the point where I thought, "Well, maybe it's time for an upgrade." Which is ridiculous because this laptop has all the horsepower I need.
I tried deleting my browsing history, cached files and other behind-the-scenes detritus. Needless to say, I tried removing most of my Chrome extensions, even the ones that seemed like they couldn't possibly impose a performance hit (like my beloved OneTab). When I opened a new tab and typed in an address (or even clicked a bookmark), there was often a delay of several seconds before anything would happen - I'd just be staring at a blank tab for what seemed an eternity. That's my conspiracy-theorist explanation.)Īlthough Chrome itself would open quickly, tabs seemed to take forever to load.
(I can't be positive, but I think the timing coincided with Microsoft's required update to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8, which happened in October.
For a while.īut in the past few months, I've noticed that my Web browser, Google Chrome, has really gotten slow. Usually I point the finger at Windows, because whenever I've taken the drastic step of wiping my hard drive and reinstalling the OS from scratch, I get a blissfully speedy system again.
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