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UBUminJ
August 31st, 2019, 10:34 AM
I have upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 to 19.04.
On 14.04, Chrome and Chromium were without any trouble, now on 19.04, they are unusable. It takes ages to load a single page, if at all.
Is that a known problem?
The Cog
August 31st, 2019, 02:00 PM
I'm on Xubuntu 19.04 so it's not quite the same, but I see no such problem. And I haven't seen lots of complaints like this here, so I am guessing it's not a common issue. I wonder it it's a network problem - have you tried Firefox to see it the problem shows there too?
uRock
August 31st, 2019, 04:04 PM
Another thing to try, since I am not sure of the upgrade method you used, is going in your /home folder and hit Ctrl+H to show hidden, then go into the .config folder and rename the google-chrome folder to google-chrome_old. Try Chrome again. If this works, then there was an issue with the old Chrome configurations.
SeijiSensei
August 31st, 2019, 04:45 PM
I'm now using Brave Browser (https://www.brave.com/), a derivative of Chromium, on Kubuntu 19.04. Works like a charm. I can install add-ons from the Google Chrome store into it as well.
UBUminJ
September 1st, 2019, 12:36 AM
Thank you for the answers. Must be something else, renaming didn't change a think - it takes 10s to display pages.
The only thing I also changed between my old installation and the new one is that the new one runs on an SSD.
TheFu
September 1st, 2019, 12:46 AM
I would check the DNS settings. A misconfigured DNS can really slow down browsers. If you try a few different ones and they all have the same issue, that's probably it.
kurt18947
September 1st, 2019, 05:49 PM
I'm now using Brave Browser (https://www.brave.com/), a derivative of Chromium, on Kubuntu 19.04. Works like a charm. I can install add-ons from the Google Chrome store into it as well.

Vivaldi is similar, seems to work well as a second browser. Some online forms don't work well with Firefox; missing fields, fields won't accept keyboard entries etc.
SeijiSensei
September 1st, 2019, 09:59 PM
Quick test: first enter 91.189.94.12 in the address bar. You should see the Canonical home page, and it should pop up pretty much immediately.

Now try entering https://www.canonical.com/. Does it come up as quickly? If not, you have a DNS problem.