Google Chrome - Slow start up

[Patrick]

Hi everyone, 

 

Before I start investigating this further, I just thought I'd see if anyone else has come across this found the cause. Basically, one of my schools complained about very slow wifi performance (the network is slow, that old chestnut!). After taking a look I've realised that the issue is actually chrome seemingly hanging on first start up. The browser launches but the startup page (google.co.uk in this instance) takes a good 30 seconds to load. No other tabs will load during this time, such as Office. They all just hang on a white page with the loading wheel spinning on the tab. After say 20-30 seconds the tabs would all load and then perform as expected.  I thought this could be DNS but my laptop (non domain joined, DHCP) has no issues.

 

Just wondered if anyone else has  had the same issue? If not I'll do some research and report back here incase someone else has the same problem in future.

 

 

[paulellam]

Seen it sporadically today, not had chance to look into it yet, but hoping it might just be one of those days

[Patrick]

That's interesting, thanks. Do you have google chrome roaming profiles in use?