My RPi 4 kit arrived yesterday and after assembling it, I put the Noobs SD card in to try it out. The Pi 4 was very responsive in comparison to the 3B in terms of start-up time, opening folders and moving windows. It seemed about the same or maybe a bit faster when starting up programs like LibreOffice writer. But it was glacial when it came to browsing. I was using the installed Chromium browser. It took what seemed to be a long time to start up, but once it started, anything else I did in it was much worse. Putting text in a window was painfully slow - there was a big delay in the text showing up in a search box after I typed it. (And I'm using a USB keyboard, not a Bluetooth.) Trying to close windows was glacially slow as well. What gives? Has anyone seen this on their Pi? Is it a problem with Chromium? I had read that you get this type of problem with Firefox in Raspberry Pi OS, not Chromium. Could it be stuff it is doing in the background? Could it be the Sandisk SD card it came with?
Ultimately I won't be using that card or Noobs; I'll go to Berryboot and install a few distros to try them, and then I want to try making a server with NextCloud instead of OpenMediaVault using Jason's presentation tutorial. I will also be using an SSD to boot and run the distro; I think you still have to start the initiation from the SD card first but then it switches over to the SSD if you set it up that way. I'm sure that this will speed things up considerably, but meanwhile I would like to solve the Chromium problem.
