I love using Chrome. Here recently tho for Mac the first time I fire up the browser it takes forever to load up completely. Probably a full minute. After the first use it loads up in seconds. This has frustrated me to the point where I went back to Safari. Any fixes for this?
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Chrome is painfully slow on startup.
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It's probably because when you load it after the first time, the application is cached in the system memory, thus, loading it faster.
Mine is instant
i would recommend clearing your history and cache
also, what extensions do you have installed
i would recommend clearing your history and cache
also, what extensions do you have installed
Cache cleared. No extensions. Still chugging on first launch consistently across 2 different Macs. :-(
Same slow speed from me
This is happening to me too. Very slow to start up the browser for the first time, sometimes a minute plus.
I'm using a good spec iMac, so hardware shouldn't be an issue.
I wonder whether it's because I've got loads of favourites saved...?
Whatever the reason, its irritating. Anybody have anymore information as to why it might be happening?
This is happening to me too. Very slow to start up the browser for the first time, sometimes a minute plus.
I'm using a good spec iMac, so hardware shouldn't be an issue.
I wonder whether it's because I've got loads of favourites saved...?
Whatever the reason, its irritating. Anybody have anymore information as to why it might be happening?
Just rebooted my 1.83ghz mac mini to see how long it takes for Chrome to load. It only took 5 seconds. I wonder why some of you are having long startup times?
The old-fashioned way
I know I'm late to the party here, but I finally "solved" this problem for myself and wanted to share that it actually worked for me....
Yes, it's the no surprise solution, but after more than a year of waiting at least 2 minutes for Chrome to start up enough to allow me to start typing something (quad core mac), I finally caved and exported my bookmarks (Bookmarks > Bookmark Manager > Organize > Export to HTML), went into my Applications, deleted the Chrome app, and went into User/Library/Application Support/ and deleted the entire Chrome folder.
Then, I opened Safari, went to http://www.google.com/mac, and downloaded and installed Chrome fresh, and re-imported my bookmarks.
Its literally 100 times faster to start (thats no joke it went from something like 120 seconds to open to less than a second). Now no sooner do I click the icon and it's ready to go. Yes, I lost all my history and probably some plugins, but the difference is totally worth it to me.
Of course, there is probably a more elegant way to solve this problem, but this actually worked for me, and I wanted to share for those of you too impatient to go through all the stupid DNS changes and other crazy hacks/fixes.
Cheers
I know I'm late to the party here, but I finally "solved" this problem for myself and wanted to share that it actually worked for me....
Yes, it's the no surprise solution, but after more than a year of waiting at least 2 minutes for Chrome to start up enough to allow me to start typing something (quad core mac), I finally caved and exported my bookmarks (Bookmarks > Bookmark Manager > Organize > Export to HTML), went into my Applications, deleted the Chrome app, and went into User/Library/Application Support/ and deleted the entire Chrome folder.
Then, I opened Safari, went to http://www.google.com/mac, and downloaded and installed Chrome fresh, and re-imported my bookmarks.
Its literally 100 times faster to start (thats no joke it went from something like 120 seconds to open to less than a second). Now no sooner do I click the icon and it's ready to go. Yes, I lost all my history and probably some plugins, but the difference is totally worth it to me.
Of course, there is probably a more elegant way to solve this problem, but this actually worked for me, and I wanted to share for those of you too impatient to go through all the stupid DNS changes and other crazy hacks/fixes.
Cheers