Google Chrome typing in addres bar is laggy/slow

[They]

Concerning Firefox, sounds exactly like what my experience has been since my first report: http://forums.sandboxie.com/phpBB3/view ... 11&t=20567

The OpenWinClass exception isn't needed any longer but the lags are still there.

[Craig@Invincea]

Try FF without any add-ons or Extensions. (if it persists..then)
Try FF in a new Sandbox.
...Then try a new FF profile.

Otherwise, just not something we have been able to recreate. On VMs or on personal machines. But those 3 things should be ruled out first.

[Sandbox User]

Just an update about a workaround/change I found for my situation:

My notebook has two graphic cards: one internal “intel hd” and a mor powerful nvidia gpu.
Normally if I don’t use an external monitor all software will use the internal gpu.

However it is possible to assign individual programs to use a specific graphic card.

If I assign firefox or chrome (both run inside the sandbox) to the nvidia gpu I do not have any lag except for the first mouse click inside the browser window. It is really a good feeling to work now inside the sandbox in a windows 10 environment like I had it before on win 7.

So for me thats an valid workaround . However I guess the reason for the behaviour is not solved .

[They]

Internal Intel HD here as well but without an external card. I am one step closer to narrowing down the root cause to the graphics card and how Firefox utilizes it inside the Sandbox.

Currently I am running a test with Direct2D & DirectWrite disabled, this has eliminated the lagging so far.

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user_pref("gfx.direct2d.disabled", true);

[brokenpromise]

Even though the title of this thread is directly related to Chrome. I have experienced this issue on Windows 10 x64 for all three major browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox). I believe Craig is unable to recreate this issue is because he is testing it on a VM.

This issue is only noticeable with a discrete graphic card and not an integrated graphic GPU from Intel or AMD. I notice that when disabling “Use hardware acceleration when available” from the Advance menu in Firefox the lag/slowness goes away.

I’m testing this on an Intel 4770K CPU, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 680, and Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Windows 10 x64 is up to date and there are no antivirus installed. Thanks

[Craig@Invincea]

Even though the title of this thread is directly related to Chrome. I have experienced this issue on Windows 10 x64 for all three major browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox). I believe Craig is unable to recreate this issue is because he is testing it on a VM.

This issue is only noticeable with a discrete graphic card and not an integrated graphic GPU from Intel or AMD. I notice that when disabling “Use hardware acceleration when available” from the Advance menu in Firefox the lag/slowness goes away.

I’m testing this on an Intel 4770K CPU, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 680, and Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Windows 10 x64 is up to date and there are no antivirus installed. Thanks

Um, Not only a VM. I'm pretty certain I wouldn't just "test" using strictly a VM, we test on our own machines, and other machines that are in a VM environment. You're assuming a lot. If you're logic is correct, just a "VM" I'd see performance issues because of the VM overhead.
I've not not seen it on machines with discrete graphics, VM or otherwise. Like you've discovered, maybe other programs can or won't use that.

SBIE doesn't care about CPU, as long as it's Intel. It doesn't use multicores or threads. It doesn't care. It doesn't understand that. Multicores may actually slow it down, as SBIE was (and still is) coded for single core operations (Windows will do whatever Windows does). RAM. I'd boost that, just in general...8GB is considered the min level in today's world. Video card, SBIE doesn't care. It just looks for a video card, it has no need to 3D, etc. SSD, faster data access in general is good, but again, SBIE doesn't really care one way or another.

We cannot recreate the exact same build as every user. This is why we say..core browser, standard hardware..etc. You can have the fastest Alienware PC and have lag for any number of a billion reasons.
If this was a major problem, we'd have more than a few cases, and directly related to SBIE and not a FF option.

If un-ticking it in FF makes it go away...How is this a SBIE issue? I'd direct you to Mozilla.

SBIE uses the driver present on your system. It doesn't care, nor install or do anything otherwise. It it's there, it will use it if a valid call is made to a driver installed on the host.

SBIE has zero capability of using hardware acceleration or not. It's simple sandbox container.

[Craig@Invincea]

He's an interesting article about the serious lag in Chrome 49, and how it's been sort of present in previous versions.
http://bgr.com/2016/03/18/fix-slow-chro ... lling-lag/

[Sandbox User]

For me the lagging is fixed after installing SBIE 5.12!