How to fix Chrome or other browsers' slowness

The first thing to check for slowness is that you're running the latest version.  Use Help/About to have Chrome update.  If you're a Malwarebytes user, and you have their extension installed, remove it and reinstall it.  This may need to be done on a regular basis (e.g. monthly, or every 2 weeks).  Unfortunately, it does mean you have to pin the extension and repeat your "allowed" sites once again, but it does often create a significant increase in performance.

If that doesn't work and it's still slow, read on for more ideas.

Rule out any faulty extensions you've added by disabling them.  If you find an extension slowing your system, remove and reinstall it if you want to continue using it.  If it doesn't resolve the slowness, look for an alternate extension, or just enable it when you need it.  Clearing the cache and cookies can be helpful as well.

If after updating and verifying that extensions aren't slowing your browser, you can check the new settings to address any slowness.  The two settings have to do with Chrome's extensive use of computer memory and perhaps other resources.  Chrome has two new "Saver" features:  a Memory Saver and an Energy Saver.  While these both sound like great ideas, it might need a little more polish to keep the changes from negatively impacting performance.  Perhaps these are things that can be enabled with performance impact in the future, but we've found that these new features create some issues. 

To adjust these settings, click on the three ellipses at the upper right of the Chrome window to open settings.  In the search box settings, enter saver.  You'll see the two saver features.  The Memory Saver is more likely to be the cause than the Energy Saver one, but we can't be sure.  Slide the switch for the setting you want to disable.  In the following image, both settings have been disabled.

Since these sound like much-needed features, we're looking forward to future versions of the browser which can save on power and memory without a significant performance cut.

If you find that disabling these improves performance, let us know.  We believe it does help, but there are other things that might need tweaking to get back 100% of the performance Chrome seemed to have even just a couple of months ago.  To keep Chrome updated, open the same settings menu at the right and select the Help / About Google Chrome option. This will force Chrome to update to the latest version if it hasn't already.  If you're still not seeing any improvement, check the additional things in this kb article.