As from today Chrome appears borked for lots of users

Draeger · 16 Jan 2013 at 20:23

As from today, my tabs in Chrome (latest build) are freezing randomly when opened. Having Googled this it appears it is a massive problem affecting thousands of Chrome users, so far no one can work out a definitive resolution to this. I've tried disabling pepperflash but that didn't work. Also tried the disable threaded compositing thing but it still does the same thing. Opena tab, browse a site. Open a new tab browse that. Attempt to switch back to first tab and *bam* - freezes.

Anyone else getting the same thing?. What have you tried to fix the bugger?. :confused:

thewanted · 16 Jan 2013 at 20:25

Odd question, but are you using Chrome via Remote Desktop?

P3N9U1N · 16 Jan 2013 at 20:25

Using chrome today as usual and can't say iv'e had any problems, business as usual here :confused:

Draeger · 16 Jan 2013 at 20:41

thewanted said:
Odd question, but are you using Chrome via Remote Desktop?

Nope, just as normal. It appears borked on all three PC's in the house and my laptop.

P3N9U1N said:
Using chrome today as usual and can't say iv'e had any problems, business as usual here

Wish I could say the same. I've just tried disabling threaded compositing via chrome://flags/ and I don't want to speak too soon but it appears to be back to working ok. Previously I disabled it via the command line switch but using flags looks like it has maybe done the trick.

yashiro · 16 Jan 2013 at 23:30

It might help to give the version number.

StringJunky · 17 Jan 2013 at 00:22

You could try Comodo Dragon which is a variant on GC which doesn't have its problems and has more security features. You can run it beside GC and import your stuff from it to it easily. it seems a bit faster as well especially with it using Comodo DNS Servers which is optional during setup.

http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Scougar · 17 Jan 2013 at 00:32

Not just today.. my work Chrome has a lot of black flashing now :-(

Not sure if related but getting a lot of display driver crashes when using chrome as well :-(

(only past few days).

Andybtsn · 17 Jan 2013 at 00:38

I've had a few crashes I must admit

StringJunky · 17 Jan 2013 at 00:44

I can't quite believe how GC has gone from a very stable reliable browser into a slow train crash. I frequent another PC forum and the posts about problems with it just keep piling up it seems.

yashiro · 17 Jan 2013 at 01:40

Still no one mentions which version. You mean 24, Stable, I assume?

You should try un-installing Chrome. Remove the folder and reboot. Then re-install. Just to rule out an upgrade screwup.

Number_25 · 17 Jan 2013 at 04:56

I don't quite understand why people use Chrome over Firefox.

I've never had any issues with Firefox, only the Adobe Flash plugin which was easily solved in a matter of seconds.

Steveocee · 17 Jan 2013 at 09:26

No issues yet (chrome for linux currently)

Draeger · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:39

yashiro said:
Still no one mentions which version. You mean 24, Stable, I assume?

Indeed :-

yashiro said:
It might help to give the version number.

I mentioned in my initial post that it was the latest build.

So far the fix I posted above regarding the chrome://flags/ thing seems to have worked on my laptop - no more freezing tabs. I'm about to try it on the three desktops here and see if it works out the same.

bledd · 17 Jan 2013 at 12:59

Mine is fine here...

Macro · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:16

StringJunky said:
I can't quite believe how GC has gone from a very stable reliable browser into a slow train crash. I frequent another PC forum and the posts about problems with it just keep piling up it seems.

I suppose this is the problem when you are trying to keep people on the upgrade treadmill. What starts of as a minimalistic fast browser slowly gets bogged down and problematic as more and more features have to be added to keep people interested.

It's happened to FF, Opera and pretty much all mainstream browsers at some point.

Matteysan · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:49

Mines fine but I don't use stable, Always been on the Dev builds.

PiKe · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:51

Not noticed any problems with mine today, same version as posted above.

Avathar77 · 17 Jan 2013 at 13:53

Couple of users reported some issues - with stored passwords/Auto complete feature.

Nismo · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:08

No issues here on the latest stable.

cu3ed · 17 Jan 2013 at 14:51

Had been having big problems with Chrome with GIFS Vids and general speed, getting crashes.

Went to the new IE and it felt a LOT faster and stable.