Well, solved for me anyway. Sometime a few hours after it was released, Firefox stopped becoming my regular browser, and Chrome *did*. I know — I was kind of amazed myself, in spite of all the plugins I’ve been missing. At any rate, one thing I’ve begun noticing has been getting worse: its seeming inability to “resolve the host”.
This would lead to the browser essentially “hanging” and then timing out while it was waiting to fetch web pages. For a browser that I’ve been relying on mostly … well, to browse … this was becoming problematic.
Turns out there are a few easy solutions for this that you can try:
1. delete your cache
2. delete your browsing history
3. delete your download history
4. disable “DNS pre-fetching”
Personally, I skipped right down to #4, and once DNS pre-fetching *was* disabled, Chrome was as zippy as ever. As always use the above tips at your own risk if you feel like trying them out.
via: Google Groups
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Been having the same problem with Chrome lately so I also tried the same trick and it worked! Thanks :D
Same for me as jhay: tried it, seemed to work right away. Thanks!
I found the solution to be a little more complicated.
Step 1:
In Chrome, click the wrench icon, select “Options” then “Under the hood”. Hit the button at the bottom that says “Reset to defaults”.
Step 2:
On the same screen, make sure “Use DNS pre-fetching” is un-checked.
Step 3:
On the same screen, scroll down and press the button that says “Change proxy settings”.
Step 4:
This assumes you are on broadband (with a pen and paper, write down your current settings so you can back them up if things go wrong). Click on “Lan Settings”. Make sure “Automatically Detect Settings” is un-checked. Click “Ok”.
Step 5:
Go to the Window XP/Vista Control Panel (Start, Settings, Control Panel). Load up the “Network Connections”.
Step 6:
You will now see a list of the network cards and bridges on your computer. Only one of these is used by your computer to connect to the internet. For example, if you are using wireless internet you will only be using the wireless connection. Right click on each other connection and select “disable”. You should only have one enabled connection.
Step 7:
Restart your machine. Turn it off and on again. This is a very important step.
Step 8:
Google Chrome will now be working fully. If not, then clear your history and cache and restart the browser.
This worked for me. It took me about 2 or 3 minutes in all, and made Chrome perfectly fast. No more “resolving host”.
The 9/17/2008 post suggested works for me (deleting history, set to default, uncheck DNS pre-fetching), then log out of Chrome and back in…but I have to do this 5-10 times per day.
This isn’t a solution, something is wrong.
Update for anyone: I was using the BETA version of Google Chrome. I uninstalled it and went back to the Released version and the need to apply the 9/17/2008 solution 5-10 tiems per day seems to have gone away.
Thanks for the update ekaplan … I recently installed Chrome again on a new PC, and had the same problem until I remembered this old post.
I still had to disable DNS fetching, however, as I had ongoing “host resolving issues”, but once I did it was lickety split ;)
cheers
t @ dji
Me too. Amazingly I think it did very well help. I have searched for two days trying to figure this out. Thanks so much for the tips. Wink! Wink!
Well done! This worked for me!
Thanks!
this resolving host thing just started happening to me today after i downloaded something. so i think it was caused by a virus in my case, slowed everything down, and i found the virus with adaware straight away too (at least i hope i got it).
i tried the steps above and they seem to have worked, will have to see.. but i think i still have some other problems because of the virus.
It works for some time, but in 10-15 min I have the same problem… It’s not the final solution…
It works for some time, but in 10-15 min I have the same problem… It’s not the final solution…
By the way. In my case I have this problem only if I have wireless internet. On the cable it works fine…
Could it be some kind of problem with my router?
It worked perfectly for me. Kudos !!
Thank ew ~
“Resolving Host” problem came back again to me today, and the steps above didn’t resolve it–but then completely uninstalling Google Chrome (but saving your preferences) and reinstalling it did resolve it–at least until it reappears again.
Thank you! I want to like this browser but the resolving host dealio was driving me nuts.
The DNS tweak was the solution.
The DNS tweek works great for me :)
#4 did it – you nailed it – thanks
Awesome! Was driving me crazy
I was having the problem and couldn’t get any of these solutions to work. I then tried reinstalling Zone alarm and that seemed to resolve it.
yeah! its working….