Here's why Chrome is SLOW (It's NOT your RAM) - Subtítulos bilingües de YouTube

Here's why Chrome is SLOW (It's NOT your RAM) - Subtítulos bilingües

Man, Google Chrome kind of sucks now, right?

I remember when everyone was screaming, Stop using Internet Explorer!

Chrome so much faster!

Is that all I know, actually.

Chrome was a revolution.

It lightweight,

fast as all get out,

and it brought great features,

like tabs and boxing, so that if one of your tabs Your entire browser didn't have to crash like the old days.

So what changed them to turn Chrome into this bloated, round-vouring behemoth?

Maybe it was you!

Me?

I mean, I don't have the best browsing habits.

I leave way too many tabs open.

But has a way of dealing with that, using dynamic caching for the tabs I'm not using.

Sure, but is Google the one who installed all of those extensions?

I mean, I don't have that many.

I have Zotero for tracking my research language tool for teleparty and an ad-walker.

Could it be that his insatiable first for extra functionality is bogging down his browser?

As it turns out, yes.

I need to make some changes.

but not every extension is made equal,

while some had no effect on browser performance,

others, like LastPass, reduced performance by as much as 12%,

and the fact that stacks across your library of resource sucking add-ons, with two-thirds of people using Chrome as a default browser.

It's clear!

but we need to see just how bad this situation is,

explore what can be done to fix it, and talk about Google's solution, including why it might be a bad one.

So quickly now to the lab!

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Our Labs team has a fair bit of experience under their belt testing, video games and productivity apps, but this is my favorite.

to browser performance and how exactly you measure browser performance is a big question primarily because browsers are big programs.

Chromium, the open source framework that Chrome is based on, is 31 million lines of code.

That is almost as much as the Linux kernel.

The core of Linux-based operating system.

systems, and it's close to the estimated count for older, complete operating systems like Windows XP.

Which probably sounds ludicrous, right, until you consider that, on the outside of games, how many programs do you run that aren't in your browser?

And of those ones, how many of them are just web apps that COULD run in your browser?

Something is.

modern browsers need to be able to support pretty much everything from 28 year old GeoCities pages to full-blown Photoshop clones.

So coming back to the question of how to measure their performance,

it's challenging because browsers do a lot of different things,

but we're going to do our best starting with a machine that is based on the most common specifications in a recent Steam hardware survey.

To look at memory use,

we opened up Chrome to a set of common web pages,

and on a clean system measured our idle RAM usage at around 1.1GB, which increased to 1.25 when we were streaming 4K video.

Even on a system with just 8GB of RAM, that's not a problematic amount of usage.

And it's important to note that even if it was higher, that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Programs that need to access information quickly will benefit from using up more RAM.

And long as they give it up in the event that your OS or another program needs it, it's not really a problem.

But what happens when we add extensions?

Well, as it turns out, it depends on the type.

Our manager, LastPass, and our third-party spellchecker Grammarly, both used considerably more RAM than say, coupon code collector honey.

One extension, insert usual disclaimer about the impact on creators, actually reduced our overall RAM usage, and that was UBlock Origin.

which is clearly effectively blocking adds and trackers from sapping our system resources.

Though, funnily enough, the more popular adblock extension

didn't have the same effect, which kind of makes us question its effectiveness, especially when they advertised that their extension saves memory.

Overall, with 10 of the most popular extensions, we observed a nearly 50% of 50% increase in RAM usage.

With a dozen tabs open, that's not that big of a deal.

But as your tab addiction grows, so, unfortunately, does your problem.

By the time we reached 48 tabs,

we were looking at a whole two gigabytes of extra RAM usage for what is functionally the same user experience.

I mean, you're not.

looking at all those windows at once, are you?

I mean, of course, if you have ample system memory, you're probably not going to notice the difference anyway, will you?

Actually, you might.

To gauge performance of our browsers, we ran several benchmarks that aim to test the many features of the web.

In MotionMark, which measures graphics in browser, most of our extensions caused virtually no change in performance.

Except, this is kind of a funny one, our ad blockers.

You see,

ad blockers need to interact with the rendering pipeline in order to hide ads without turning your web pages into a completely fragmented mess.

And that appears to have resulted in a reduction in in browser rendering performance.

Now, in the real world, this slowdown is going to be masked by other speed benefits, but thought it was an interesting observation nonetheless.

Moving on to Spadometer,

a benchmark that's focused on simulating user experiences,

like working with a to-do list, editing rich text, rendering charts, and reading news sites, we found a totally different story.

Here, it's the last story.

pass, causing a big slowdown, and our best guess is that this is due to LastPass trying

to scan every text field for potential autofill opportunities.

In Jetstream 2,

a benchmark that's focused on smooth operation,

we found that Adblock and Grammarly did a lot of damage,

but then LastPass was relatively benign,

and then in The expert 4.0, we just 3% reduced performance with all of our extensions enabled at once.

So, sometimes your extensions matter, sometimes don't, and sometimes different ones will or won't.

The results just don't really seem to add up to a clear picture, but hey, maybe problem is we're looking too closely.

If we zoom out and look at the overall,

a clear trend develops, especially when we configure our browser like a regular person would, and we have multiple extensions running concurrently.

With everything enabled, we lose something like a quarter of our performance in the Chrome web browser.

If you're a major surfer, 25%, that's the kind of, difference that you could really notice in day-to-day use.

I mean think of all the extra LTT behind the scenes that you could watch on lmg.gg slash floatplane with all that extra time.

So what do we do about this?

Well, some extensions are always consuming some level of system resources, and you can track this yourself by pressing shift escape to open the chrome task

manager.

At the bottom of your list will be your extensions and writing this right now

I'm noticing some of my extensions being needlessly active page downloader single file.

Why is that open?

I'm not downloading anything.

But the PDF editing extension that I'm using seems to respect the fact that I don't always need it running and it's not consuming anything.

Now's a perfect time then to go through and cull some of your more inconsiderate extensions, especially if you aren't using them that much anymore.

All it'll cost you is a few seconds to click that little puzzle block and here's a good rule of thumb.

If you don't remember the last time you used it, or what it's for, just get rid of it.

You can always reinstall it later.

If you have lots of RAM,

and good tab management,

turning off the memory saving feature in Chrome will speed things up as well as Chrome will spend less time reloading pages.

Pre-loading pages can also speed things up,

but if you're someone who uses an ad blocker or a privacy extension, pre-loading isn't really an option.

Speaking of privacy,

this is unrelated to your extensions, but while you're in the why not stop by the add privacy section and turn all that tracking off?

We can't really give you an after result for the impact of all the changes you just made.

I your mileage may vary depending on what you removed or didn't and your overall web browsing habits.

But from what we've seen anecdotally, it is very possible that you'll notice a difference.

Just not in startup time.

This was a really interesting part of our test that we're tacking on the end here.

We that with a reasonable extension loadout,

the application takes about the same amount of time to launch regardless of what you do or don't have active.

Then again, I guess who cares anyway, because when's the last time you close Chrome?

I see that update button.

The last thing that you can do.

is to uninstall Chrome.

And I'm only kind of joking right now.

The rollout of Google's Manifest V3 is set to dramatically change the capabilities of Chromium extensions,

which, by the way, also affect Microsoft Edge now, especially hindering the effectiveness of ad blockers and privacy enhancing extensions.

We haven't tested this yet.

firefox's performance with extensions or without because realistically most of you aren't using it but

hey maybe next time we do an update on this the situation will have changed because you'll have

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Thanks for watching.

If you guys liked this video, maybe you'll enjoy another deep dive into minor differences in computer performance.

Check out our video where we tested 12 of the same CPU so that we could find a set of them

that were nearly identical in performance.

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