Last night my Chrome forced an update.

[House of Roberts]

I woke up this morning to a Chrome that works so slowly it is almost locked up. I tried clearing the cache, browsing history and restarted. After several restarts it is still not working. I checked task manager and the memory just to open one Google page without even opening a site is over 5 gig.
Any ideas how to get Chrome to return to normal? Nothing was wrong before this update.

Fortunately, Edge is not affected as that is what I am using.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. You could uninstall it, reset the computer and download and install it afresh?

[House of Roberts]

3. That will kill all my bookmarks, won't it?

How can I preserve them? Can I import them to Edge then put them back after?
When I opened Edge it asked about something like that but at the time I hadn't reached that level of desperation yet.

I can't see a specific thing to open to accomplish that from Edge. I am not very familiar with Edge and I don't do well with online directions written by experts. Thanks in advance.

[House of Roberts]

5. Wait. I figured out how to copy the bookmarks.

An article explaining it at my level of incompetence somehow opened and gave me the steps I needed.

You never learn anything when these things work properly. It's only when they screw up you gain new skills.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. True! I did software support and nothing teaches you how it works until you try to figure out why it doesn't!

[House of Roberts]

8. I got the replacement Chrome working and figured out

how to reverse the bookmarks back into it, and my memory usage went back to normal. When I deleted Chrome, they immediately wanted to know why, so I told them this was caused by their update. It even asked if I was going to reload Chrome and I told them that too. Maybe they had an issue with the update and now they're finding out about it.
Thanks again.

[ShepKat]

2. I deleted it.

screw that noise- so many other options out there.

some company wanted me to use chrome for something and I told them I don't have it.
We ended up parting ways.

They couldn't comprehend- 'ma'am, everyone uses chrome' -

sorry MA'AM - I sure as hell don't.

[House of Roberts]

4. I tried Edge/Bing and found its capability weak on several tasks I depend on.

I bailed on Firefox a long time ago, and I don't have enough tech savvy to be messing with the lesser known choices.

I'd like my Chrome just fine, if it doesn't stay like this.

[ShepKat]

7. Brave is great for me so far

except where places demand chrome. DuckDuckGo is ok from what I've heard.
I remember life before Internet so going back to that would be an inconvenience but adjustable and
have always kept that in mind.