u/Mangy_DogUK

I have just spent the day trying to figure out why my Chrome has been running really badly for the last couple of weeks, and I've just narrowed it down to bitwarden extension.

I did some googling and found that theres already been a post about it, but its a good couple weeks old and there appears to have been no fix.

Bitwarden needs to fix this issue now. I cant believe its been a problem for this long.

This basically breaks Chrome and makes it near on impossible to use if you have more than a few tabs open. (which I do as I have lots of work references open)

I consider myself very tech savvy, I'm a hardware and a software developer who's built computers for 35 years.

But I'm a little out of date on win11 sysadmin side of things...

SPEC

Win11 Pro

AMD 5800

64GB RAM

Nvidia 3080

Ok I'm having 2 issues that's very recently started happening that I simply cant trace down...

I recently begrudgingly installed Windows 11 fresh on my machine machine. Things were working ok for a while, but this last couple of weeks I've started to notice some real performance issues.

I'm on a fairly high end machine though a few years from being the latest enthusiast machine.

Firstly Chrome. I regularly have a lot of chrome tabs open, I have 64GB of ram its not been an issue before. Task manager reports 25% usage, so I'm not simply running out.

Chrome has been really slugish lately. When I reboot my machine I would reload ## number of recently closed tabs (mixture of Youtube music lines up and various reference and work stuff.... )

Before this last couple of weeks, that would reload everything really fast with no issue. But now. Its started to really hog the machine down. Even now typing this reddit post, I'm seeing the curser lag behind and then catch up with my typing...

When reloading tabs, chrome ends up being frozen for 5-10 sometimes longer seconds, and even after then it would really stutter and be slow.

I'm aware of the recent Chrome AI 4gb model thing and I disabled that. I'm not convinced its that.

I look at task manager, and I'm not seeing any suspiciously high CPU ram or even GPU usage.

Thats issue 1, issue 2... strange high CPU temp when "idle"... Nothing shocking about 64C... but again, something is using idle time and I cant find what... My CPU is also keeping its clocks up like its being used by something. But even Process Explorer isnt tracking down whats taking up the CPU... I had once caught MS Weather app being the culprit, and stopping that brought down the idle temp. But the thing is. Thats not the cause now, and nothing is really utilising the CPU... Well not obviously...

Typically my CPU would idle around 40C.

And before anyone asks. While yes I could do with a little dust clean out, Its not so bad that my AIO cant exhaust out. I have a gentle CPU curve, but itll go 100% if it gets close to 80C... Typically at idle my AIO should barely be running.

I also dont think my AIO is faulty or ran dry.

Has there been some windows 11 Update recently thats basically screwed things up again?

Like I say I'm pretty lost as to whats happening this time.

The two issues might be related. But they also might be two separate issues.

Anyone have any ideas? Im kinda lost.

ADDED:

So i just closed chrome and noticed the CPU drop. So yes something in chrome is the issue on all fronts...