Very slow Chromium browser

Question

On my machine Chromium is very slow, I had to switch to Firefox where everything works fine.
Looks like this is a kind of JavaScript problem (eg. slowed down typing on Facebook), pages loading slower, feels like the pages are heavy.

Is there any option to fix this? How to debug the problem?

Clean install
Chromium 41.0.2272.76 Ubuntu 14.10

Solution

As suggested by @Avi disabling the GPU solved this issue in my case.

I proceeded as suggested in this bug report and disabled the use of gpu for my chrome. For such, you just need to start it with the --disable-gpu flag.

You can also do as shown in this issue, by changing the settings. For this go at chrome://settings/ > Advanced and uncheck Use hardware acceleration.

As you can see, this seems to be an issue and both ways are just workarounds. Let's hope future versions fix this issue and this question/solution becomes obsolete.

Comments

[Admin]

In Chromium's tab strip area, right click and select Task Manager. Is there any process taking a significant chunk of the CPU?

[Admin]

@saiarcot895 GPU process takes up to 80% when I type in the facebook textarea.

[Admin]

see if it is similar to this , and try to disable GPU acceleration

[Admin]

askubuntu.com/questions/712504/chrome-running-slow/…

[Admin]

This is maybe some problem with hardware acceleration in ubuntu?

[imrek]

Makes no difference.

[Rui F Ribeiro]

2017 and the same bug in FreeBSD...drat. This answer is GOLD.

[m01010011]

2020 and this solution still works! Even on Windows!

[Victor VosMottor]

2021 and hoooray it works! Thanks a lot.

[depperm]

2022 this worked, what is weird is one day it was fine and the next it was slow