I was always a Firefox fan, I just love the extension support.
However, I didn't like the speed, the fact that it blocked the browser (all tabs) for a few seconds everytime I opened a javascript intensive tab, like gmail, so I tried Chrome.
It was fast. Really fast. But after a few days it just still wasn't fast enough.
I noticed it struggling to show me 3 simultaneous tabs, cpu always at 100%, after changing tabs I had to wait a few seconds to show me the contents, scrolling also took at least a second on some javascript intensive pages.
It's not as bad as firefox (and extension support is much worse for me), but it is still bad.
So now I ask the community: Is there something I can do to make this faster or is a netbook just not enough for web browsing anymore?
Your answer may be the only thing stopping me from buying a top-of-the-line core i7 ultrabook (or equally fast) to see if I can forget about the slow old days.
Note: I do have 2Gb of RAM, so I don't think that's the issue. Apart from the antivirus, no other software is running with the browser and I have tried to disable all extensions to see if speed went up. Nothing worked.
Also, the internet speed is not the problem here, I wait for all the pages to load and the problems appear after that.
However, I didn't like the speed, the fact that it blocked the browser (all tabs) for a few seconds everytime I opened a javascript intensive tab, like gmail, so I tried Chrome.
It was fast. Really fast. But after a few days it just still wasn't fast enough.
I noticed it struggling to show me 3 simultaneous tabs, cpu always at 100%, after changing tabs I had to wait a few seconds to show me the contents, scrolling also took at least a second on some javascript intensive pages.
It's not as bad as firefox (and extension support is much worse for me), but it is still bad.
So now I ask the community: Is there something I can do to make this faster or is a netbook just not enough for web browsing anymore?
Your answer may be the only thing stopping me from buying a top-of-the-line core i7 ultrabook (or equally fast) to see if I can forget about the slow old days.
Note: I do have 2Gb of RAM, so I don't think that's the issue. Apart from the antivirus, no other software is running with the browser and I have tried to disable all extensions to see if speed went up. Nothing worked.
Also, the internet speed is not the problem here, I wait for all the pages to load and the problems appear after that.