After Google recently released the stable 4.0 version of Chrome I noticed a ridiculous amount of lag at times — scrolling was slowed to a crawl and typing into any text boxes (including creating blog posts in WordPress) was torture. The typed text was entering at something like a character per second or so. Just unacceptable.
The fix for me — at least so far so good — was pretty simple. I just cleared the browser cache. If your Chrome browser installation is feeling sluggish, I’d try this before doing anything else too drastic.
- Click on the wrench (top right of browser window) and choose “options”
- Click on “Personal Stuff” (the center tab)
- Then click on “Clear Browsing Data” in the fourth action area down (helpfully titled “Browsing Data”)
- From there you have a checklist of things you can delete — Clear Browsing History, Clear Download History, Empty the Cache, etc. — I unchecked everything but “Empty the Cache” and in the “Clear data from this period:” action menu I chose “Everything.”
Simple and has worked wonders. Chrome is back to its speedy browsing self again.
