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by shousper 4672 days ago
I used to have the same gripe with Firefox for a good couple years. Turned out my profile had.. something.. in it that was slowing down nearly every activity. I'd strongly suggest nuking your Chrome profile and any other lurking config or cache if you can. In my experience, old browser profiles seem to sometimes hide slow juice as it were, haha.
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D9u 4672 days ago
As mentioned above, I've never created a Chrome/Chromium user profile. I had the browser setup to clear cache and cookies on exit, and I'm aware of extensions/add ons slowing things down so I tested with a fresh install - no add ons/extensions - and a fresh OS.

I'm not trying to dis Chrome/Chromium as I really like the UI.

I've tried http://speedtest.net/ and when I complained to my ISP they sent me to their own site, http://speedtest.oceanic.

Interestingly, this morning's tests totally discredited my previous accusations regarding Chrome/Chromium. (The net Gods must have intervened)

Chromium on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2940424253

Chromium on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> https://paste.xinu.at/EWUab/

Firefox on Xubuntu 13.04 ===> https://paste.xinu.at/8ky/

Never mind... Disregard my complaints. It seems like Chromium is on par with Firefox this morning.

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