It could be something you missed when setting up Arch?
It could be something funny with the kernel if you haven’t tried anything other than the latest.
Your whole computer could be a little slow without swap, especially if you set it up incorrectly.
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I honestly don’t know
In the Arch wiki of Chromium and Intel graphics I have not found anything that would interest me, apart from the cache and profile in tmpfs and hardware acceleration
The swap is currently not active, but simply because I am trying to see if it somehow changes like that
For a long time I have had the swap activated
The system however hardly exceeds 5gb (currently using 3.2gb)
It is probably simply the fault of the PC hardware. There is no solution.
Do you have the same problem on Endeavour, or just Arch?
Other than Windows have you run any other linux distro on this hardware? Maybe you try another install of a different desktop of EOS? I don’t know what else to tell you to try. Except don’t give up.
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Change kernels perhaps? If you do remember to update Grub before rebooting. I can never remember the command for that, I use update-grub which is just a script for the command. That has to be installed from the AUR. I am sure people here can provide the correct way! 
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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If I were me, I’d use the akm package.
@fbodymechanic right now I have Endeavour. I don’t know why he gives me Arch as a distro, but I have Endeavor installed.
The proof is when I give pacman -Syu:
core is up to date
extra 1565.4 KiB 2.64 MiB / s 00:01 [--------------------------] 100%
community 5.6 MiB 4.39 MiB / s 00:01 [--------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
endeavouros is up to date
@ricklinux I am thinking of trying Budgie or Cinnamon. I’d hate to ditch plasma, but I’ll try
@wordler @bob418 I’m not that much of a noob 
I created an alias to make it update with update-grub
PS: I tried with kernel-zen
Haha, yeah update-grub is a handy script! I’m glad things are working well. Browsers, well I’ve had mixed fortunes over the years with all platforms with all browsers on all sorts of hardware where everything has worked perfectly. Now I just swear a lot and bite the bullet! 
My suggestion would be Cinnamon. I run Cinnamon also. After you install it turn off window effects in effects in the start menu. It has an issue with the welcome screen if the setting is on. Other than that should be no issues. Budgie is okay also … your choice. The only thing this will show is either there is an issue with the current install or you have the same issue on another desktop? Don’t automatically jump to making changes to browsers and settings etc. Just use it and see how it works.
So why choose Cinnamon or any other DE? Browser or DE? If the install is knackered it would show itself in not just in browser performance surely?
@wordler In fact, I think it is not the fault of the DE.
Kde is very fast in everything he does. Programs open at three times the speed of Windows, even the browser
It is only the performance of the browser that is causing problems on my computer
Then it would seem that the issue is with Firefox running under Linux. I would report this to the Firefox people after checking your own system. I do find Firefox a bit slow but I have used it as my primary browser since 2006.
Paradoxically, Firefox seems slightly (but only slightly) faster than Chromium on my computer
However, both under stress (not exaggerated stress) tend to slow down
I think he should try one of our more minimal flavors like EnOS i3 or EnOS bspwm or EnOS Sway. And first, try with the default browser (FF) if that works then switch to a Chromium-based browser and see if it works.
Personally, I don’t use Firefox or Chrome, or Chromium due to privacy stuff and speed. I use Vivaldi which is based on Chromium web rendering engine but without googles data collection tools. It’s configurable to the core with add blocking and tracker blocking built-in. We can enable those if we want. Can get loading speeds near Brave once configured correctly.
Anyway, I think when he’s playing online content iGPU access might be slowing down his browser functions. I did experience this issue when I was testing EnOS in a virtual machine hosted on Windows 10. I think this might be the same case difference being his on bare metal.
If a minimal EnOS doesn’t work would advise switching to something like MX Linux with XFCE and test.
Hi, thanks for the tip
I might as well give it a try, but it could never be my definitive setup because I don’t like DEs so minimal and keyboard-only focused.
I don’t like tiling on Pop OS either, which also offers the option to use it with the mouse.
I don’t think anything will change with other distributions, but trying when I have some time never hurts
No problem. I don’t like pop as well. It might not change anything with another distro. But they differ the way other distros handle hardware and Kernel calls. Trying another Arch based distro might not change anything but testing with something that’s based on much more stable and kind of not bleeding edge might work that’s why I suggested MX Linux.
It’s a rock solid distro based on Debian stable and it get tweaked from 2 communities (antix and former MEPIS Linux Community). And normally Debian stuff works better with old hardware. Try it out they also have a KDE flavor.
Fluxbox and spend some time configuring it based upon Debian stable or Arch or Gentoo?
What ? he just need something to test his issue. Gentoo really?
Using a different DE might not going to help him because there seems to be something wrong when using his iGPU and Kernel accessing that part of the CPU.
Just using the K.I.S.S. philosophy. Strip everything to the very basics and start over again. Just an idea not an answer. 