Solved Google Chrome grinds to a halt or can't access page

[scottyb]

Hello and thanks in advance for any insight to this problem.

Google Chrome suddenly slows and opening pages reminds me of old dial up connection then show errors ( I'm sorry I don't have codes) - I would close out and reopen the browser and it would work okay for a few pages ad go back to screwed up mode.
Second computer on the same internet connection with firefox was working just fine. Same OS. W7/ 64bit
Tried restart = no help. Over the course of the day the problem lessened and today seems 'fixed'

Today it's fine - yesterday it was unusable.

Is this a common thing?

 

[TheOneBobbyGunn]

Do you have multiple extensions enabled? If so I would disable them, and test the pages again. I've had this happen before while I was running 20 or so extensions. It turned out each page visit stored more and more info on a lot of the extensions, and after a while Chrome's memory climbed so high the browser became unresponsive.

 

[A Guy]

You can use Chrome's built in task manager to see if a certain tab is the cause when it slows

Google Chrome Task Manager

A Guy

 

[scottyb]

Thanks to your help, I found the culprit! It was an enhanced browser app that came with Dragon speak 11 install. Once I disabled it the problem stopped. Thank you again for a great forum and your input.

 

[A Guy]

Great, glad you got it sorted. Thanks for sharing the fix

A Guy