Google Chrome is Slow

I have a Windows 7 computer with Firefox and Chrome on my WiFi network. Chrome is slow. I open a new tab and then enter a url and it takes > 10 sec before the page starts to load. In Firefox, no delays. However, once the page does start to load, it loads at the same normal, fast, speed in both browsers.

Any suggestions?

I have no Chrome plugins or anything like that, I tried emptying my history, cookies, etc.

Try adding --in-process-plugins to the command line.

Under Options > Under the Hood try disabling Use DNS pre-fetchign to improve page load performance. That was causing all sorts of problems for me including slow page loads or inability to connect to a server.