Chrome software conflict - resolved, and fixing it fixed a LOT

[sekker]

I've posted recently that Chrome had become terribly slow, unusably slow in some cases (timing out when trying to connect to websites, etc).

I had switched to Safari, which was working and largely better.

But it occurred to me that something else could be happening, so I went into Chrome's settings and turned off as many extensions as I could. I turned off the new google translate, etc. Kept flash controller extensions, however.

Once I did that - wow! Zoom. Chrome is usable again (not perfect).

Here's the amazing part - Firefox is back to normal, too.

And some stuttering disappeared on the computer.

I had noticed that this machine was suffering from some sort of software issues, but I attributed it to just running 10.9.5 and not having updated to 10.10 (and Apple not really supporting this now older OS).

But honestly, it would never have occurred to me that extensions installed in a browser would impact other things on this system.

I know there are some malware extensions, which I suppose could explain it.

Nevertheless, I thought I'd post in case anyone else is having trouble with Chrome. Lots to like about Chrome, but it DOES need to work as a browser!