Chrome and Edge extremely slow in Parallels MacOS VM on MacBook Pro M1

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by TomH21, Nov 22, 2021.

  1. TomH21

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    Hello,
    I'm running Parallels on a new MacBook Pro M1, and have a MacOS 12 Monterey VM running successfully. The Safari browser works great in the Mac VM, but when I try running the Apple Silicon version of Chrome or Edge, it's so slow as to be unusable. There is a 4-5 second delay even typing letters on the keyboard. I opened a ticket with Parallels but they just told me to make sure I have the latest Parallels Tools installed, which I have done.

    Has anyone else run into this problem? I use VMs for browser based software demos and Safari doesn't have the best look and feel for our software. In the meantime I'm using a Windows 11 Insider Preview VM which is working fine, but isn't a long term solution.

    Thanks for any insight or recommendations.
     
  2. DaveW16

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    Yes, having issues with both Chrome browser and Edge browser not rending properly and very sluggish. I'm trying to trouble shoot now but finding Firefox works fine.
     
  3. TomH21

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    Thanks for the reply. Good to know it's not just me. Please let me know if you find a resolution.
     
  4. sparkomagic

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    same issue, wish I found this post earlier. I even tried adding config.ini to bump up vCPU.Count, etc. (it's not exposed in UI like with windows) to no avail.
     
  5. TomH21

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    Yes, very frustrating! I had actually forgotten about it since this post was so long ago. I figured surely it would be resolved by now. Just tried again and it's still unusable. I've been using Windows 11 Insider Preview as a workaround (I just need a stable dedicated platform for performing software demos).

    Let me know if you discover any resolutions...
     
  6. BrandonD7

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    This is still an issue for me. We have 250+ Mb/s up/down speeds and Chrome is running like it's on WinXP with 2GB of RAM. Any Fixes @parallels??
     
  7. NicholasD12

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    Still an issue for me, too. Chrome is often quite laggy in Windows even though:
    1) I have assigned 24GB of RAM to Windows 11 and am using half of that;
    2) I have a MacBook Pro M3 Max chip and 64 GB of RAM total on the machine.
     
  8. TimB33

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    I'm having the same problems with Chrome too. I'm running a Mac M1. WTF, @parallels
     

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