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For me it's Chrome that has been the resource hog and Firefox that has been a lot more swift. Chrome frequently uses 100% of one of my cpu cores for minutes on

For me it's Chrome that has been the resource hog and Firefox that has been a lot more swift. Chrome frequently uses 100% of one of my cpu cores for minutes on end and is very sluggish with creating new tabs (where it's sometimes faster to start up Firefox and use that to search than to open a new tab in Chrome). I'm not quite sure what's going on, but it seems some browsers just occasionally have issues with certain hardware configurations?

JonnieCache 12y ago
That sound like you have a bad extension.
- tokenizerrr 12y ago
  I wish :( I've disabled them all, and checked chrome's internal task manager. It's the "Browser" task that consumes the CPU, and not one of the extension tasks: http://i.imgur.com/FvbDrMc.png http://i.imgur.com/FvbDrMc.png
r721 12y ago
>very sluggish with creating new tabs There was a bug (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=409126 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=409126), but it seems to be fixed. However last comment there hints on another related bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=407889 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=407889 Maybe you have bookmarks with foreign characters on bookmark bar too?
- tokenizerrr 12y ago
  I used to have a large amount of bookmarks on the bookmark bar, which did cause sluggish tab switching. I've recently removed all of those which did improve the tab switching speed, but not the tab creation speed. I should probably do some more hunting through that issue tracker at some point...
cake 12y ago
I switched back to Firefox recently from Chrome. I find Firefox faster too. Chrome is losing focus on what was making it great : ultralight and fast. I'd ditch Chrome if Firefox had full html5 video support on OS X.