I love Google but recently I was pulling my hair out with Google Chrome.
It was running slow, I couldn’t have more than a couple of tabs open (trust me, that was a big problem), I couldn’t download things without clearing the cache every third item and I couldn’t do a Google Hangout unless I cleared the cache and restarted the computer. Even then I had problems.
It was driving me crazy.
I tried deleting Chrome and reinstalling it. I scanned for viruses and malware. Nothing worked.
But I couldn’t give it up. I’ve saved all my passwords to my Google account and I love having all my bookmarks on my desktop, laptop and phone. Plus I’ve reached a point in my life that if I learn one new thing I have to delete something from my brain to make room. I didn’t want to have to get used to a new browser.
Then my brother-in-law told me about Google Dashboard.
www.google.com/settings/dashboard brings you to your Google Dashboard. It shows you all your Google tools.
If you go to Chrome Sync you can see how many bookmarks you have and how many open tabs are in your Chrome 
browser.
That’s where the problem was. It seems that when you use your Google account across multiple devices there’s a glitch in the system.
When I went to my Dashboard it showed that I had over 10,000 bookmarks (I don’t) and over 3,000 open tabs. That’s a lot, even for me.
For some reason Google Sync keeps all your tabs in it’s memory and the Dashboard thinks they’re all still open and running. No wonder things slowed down.
I clicked the “stop and clear” button and it cleared all the open tabs and excess bookmarks from the system. I then re-enabled Sync. All my bookmarks where exactly where they should be on all my devices and I am now in love with Chrome again.
However, you can see from the photo to the right that the number of open tabs is creeping up again. Clearly this needs to be a regular part of my routine.
Hope this helps.
