Chrome Crashing

For the last week or so, I have been experiencing regular crashes from Chrome on my laptop. A tab becomes unresponsive, nothing else works, the kill dialog doesn't respond, and one of Chrome's myriad system processes runs one CPU thread at full speed until I kill it with Task Manager. It's happened once while I was actively using the browser and several times when I was away from the computer.

I can sometimes use the browser for hours at a time with no problems, but the occasional crash has been a headache.

Any ideas?

 

That sounds akin to bugs in the broswer. Maybe a better test would be to do the same with IE10 and FF21 and see if you experience the same problem and if not. Then the problem lies in the Chrome itself and until Google address or fixes the problem nothing you do will fix it. Also what kinda plugins and extra do you have installed into the browser? I for one only have limited addons and only those I need not tool bars or search bars as those to me is akin to a backdoor to hackers and malware to come right in.

 

It does indeed seem like a browser bug, but I'm curious as to why it would only affect one of the three computers on which I use Chrome. I only use three extensions: Adblock, Zhongwen (a mouseover Chinese-to-English dictionary), and nciku - a Chinese character lookup, but they're all on all three computers. Toolbars and search bars are indeed hacker and malware bait, but more importantly, why would I want to sacrifice valuable vertical real estate for some idiotic toolbar when I can do the same things with the built-in interface?

I filed a Chrome bug report but it probably reads like many other bug reports for nonspecific problems that can't be pinpointed. I guess I just deal with it for now and if it keeps up I'll just start using IE for a while.

 

Just cause you have it installed on others doesn't mean what runs in one will run in another. You can have exact same two computer back to back and one will always act differently compared to the same exact twin. And since we don't know what specs and setups are on the others that is even harder to begin to diagnosis the problems.