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I am using Chromium on a flash drive through LiberKey and it does everything I want it to do as far as syncing my Chrome bookmarks from home, etc. But it's soooooo slow. If I open more than 1 tab, or if a tab is heavy with code such as Gmail or GMaps, then the entire program hangs for about 5-10 seconds.

I don't exactly know how portable apps work when run from a flash drive, so is there a way to speed up load times?

The computer I'm using here at work has a P4 3GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM. The flash drive is a SanDisk 2GB (probably 2-3 years old).

UPDATE: I downloaded and ran USBDeview after reading some about USB speeds. The drive transfers around 5 MB/s write and about 15 MB/s read. Would that be sufficient for my portable app speeds?

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It could be that your USB drive has slow read/write speeds. Or that the computer you are using is slow without sufficient RAM.

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Yeah it's not the most up-to-date computer they give us here in the office, but I thought this would be decent enough to run a browser from USB. Take a look at the stats I edited in and please let me know if you think that's definitely the issue. I keep the computer pretty clean and without many apps running since it's not a speed demon to begin with. Thanks a lot. – NoCatharsis Apr 23 '10 at 17:15
That computer should run just fine. Maybe the issue could be USB 1.0. – Notorious Arab Apr 24 '10 at 0:28
Hmm yeah - I honestly don't know a lot about when USB 2.0 became the standard, so maybe this desktop was manufactured before then? Would my only solution then be to add a USB 2.0 card to the computer? – NoCatharsis Apr 29 '10 at 3:14
I wouldnt do that just now. Unless ur desperate. I would get a USB 3.0 cad for the computer. – Notorious Arab Apr 30 '10 at 2:51
Note the update I made to the OP. See if that makes any difference. Thanks again. – NoCatharsis May 4 '10 at 1:33
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