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What is Chrome secretly up to?
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tomstickland wrote: »If someone could make a no-frills browser that was lightning fast I'd have it.
Hows about Links?
Seriously though, chrome is still beta, so I would expect there to still be a few issues that have not been ironed out.
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No disk thrashing here.0
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So anyone know what it is up to? My guess is 'no good'.
What a load of junk. If anyone wanted to ''spy'' it would be Microsoft.
Google is one of the most trusted major computer companies out there.
Chrome is BETA. Hence, there may be software/hardware issues specific to your type of computer.0 -
I think this probably explains why it happens.
Or to put it more succinctly, "think cockup before conspiracy".
My guess would be its sandboxing feature is eating up a lot of virtual memory. Heavy use of the pagefile is quite often the explanation for excessive disk accessing.0 -
tomstickland wrote: »I don't understand why after 20 years of development, using a computer still turns into a trudge whilst I wait for applications to respond or things write to the hard drive in a frenzy. The internet has to be one of the worst experiences....click back and then a browser sits there for 5s until a page responds etc.
If someone could make a no-frills browser that was lightning fast I'd have it.
I can't recommend mozilla firefox enough, you only download the basic browser and you can add extras if you want, definitely the fastest browser i've ever used, it's lightning quick for me.:j0 -
I think this probably explains why it happens.
Or to put it more succinctly, "think cockup before conspiracy".
My guess would be its sandboxing feature is eating up a lot of virtual memory. Heavy use of the pagefile is quite often the explanation for excessive disk accessing.
It seems to be caused by the 'phishing and malware protection' which seems
to be more of a problem than what it supposed to cure, fortunately you can
disable it in options.
http://www.davidgrant.ca/how_stop_chrome_thrashing_disk0 -
Just wondering whether you are on XP or Vista? I'm running Vista and it doesn't seem to do it.0
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