Speeding up Chrome
Posted: 2020-03-07 Filed under: network | Tags: browsing, chromium, google chrome Leave a commentRecently, I’ve noticed that somehow browsing becomes more and more sluggish under Linux. I am using Chromium, from AlienBob. At the same time, using Chrome in Windows scrolls web-pages, such as Imgur or Reddit, much better. I finally googled a bit and it seems I found the solution.
I found this discussion at Ask Ubuntu. There is a link to a bug report for Chromium 14.04 LTS. They recommend that I either start the browser with the --disable-gpu option, like this:
chromium --disable-gpu
or that I disable hardware acceleration from the browser’s settings. I did this, by going to:
chrome://settings/system
and switched off:
Use hardware acceleration when available
It makes a difference, at least on my ThinkPad T420.
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