Chromium on Pi2

Just for amusement I've been trying to run the chromium browser
on a Pi2. Obviously, it's slow, but it looks like the cpu isn't
busy at all, mostly idle with a few percent for system processes.

Right now it's stuck loading a page from the New York Times
website. The Pi2 itself is responsive, but the chromium window
seems totally stuck.

Anybody else seeing this? I expected it to perform badly, but
not this badly.

I'm using the "universal" image of bookworm. Is an older image
likely to be better?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska