No, not Flash or YT related. I think since the last update my Chrome has been semi-borked. It works most of the time, however at some point various sites in tabs just stop working. It's not specific to a Web site, it's happened on forums, on Facebook, on gmail, etc. The symptom is that everything just stops responding, but it's not hung. The tab still responds, the mouse responds, but it doesn't scroll (mousewheel and scroll bar are frozen), and it responds to a refresh but the refresh comes back (without errors) and doesn't fix it. If I copy the URL, create a new tab, and paste it in, it's fine. This is after a reboot, etc. Win7. Anyone else heard or seen this weird intermittent behaviour?
I'm running Chrome on Windows 8 and haven't noticed these issues (yet). It looks like I'm on the latest version, 24.0.1312.56 m. The only glitches I've seen recently have been site-specific, like BF timing out when posting messages. Other than that it seems to be behaving normally. I realize I've probably jinxed myself by posting this.
This happened to my work computer, sort of -- certain sites would reliably freeze the content (including, ironically, G+), and all the tabs running in that process, but I could still open other tabs and work with the unfrozen ones. I deleted Chrome entirely, and that didn't fix it. I even removed all my profile data, and it wasn't fixed. Then there was an update, and suddenly it worked again. (And meanwhile, no problem at all on any other computer.) So, uh, that's not very helpful?
I'm on the latest, so I don't think it's an update. Hell, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it's my video drivers, just trying to think what has changed recently with my system. It's frustrating, but at the same time I'm more productive since I keep my browser closed all the time now =)
I actually switched to Firefox, at work only, for about a month. It was vaguely beneficial to be forced to try Firefox again, because I haven't used it for a long time, and it's much better now. After getting it configured up how I like (a big thing for me is Chrome search engine shortcuts/Firefox bookmark shortcuts -- typing "wp something" to look it up on Wikipedia or "a something" to look it up on Amazon is very, very common for me), it's actually not much worse than Chrome these days. But it is still worse, and once I could get Chrome back, I was glad to have it.
Chrome was very unstable the last time I used it, but the last straw for me were the horrible pale fonts that were introduced since last August or so, it makes stuff a pain to read, and the Chromium team promised there would be user control over this but still haven't fixed it. I have switched full time to Opera since then and could not be happier. Slim, stable, and loaded with features, it reminds me of how browsers used to be. You get addicted to the mouse gestures very quickly too, and I still haven't been able to find a Chrome extension that replicates these well.
A bit late to the party here, but I've been having issues with Chrome of late, as well. It pretty much refuses to do streamed media for me at all. Podcasts constantly stutter, stop and start over and over for no visible reason. Trying to load the GIF thread is an exercise in futility as it takes about 5-10 minutes a page and freezes every time I attempt to scroll down. Youtube flat out doesn't work. Trying to watch a video on Giantbomb has similar issues to podcasts, stopping and starting and stuttering. Everything works fine on my (extremely outdated) Firefox, with the exception of Youtube which is still pretty crappy, but works somewhat. I went to Chrome when Firefox decided to go on the rapid release schedule, it was fine for the first few months and now all this, I'm now considering just sucking it up and going back.
As a quick update, I'm pretty sure it's one forum (Muff Wiggler's) that was causing issues for me. If I have any of the forums loaded up in a tab, eventually Chrome starts to shit itself. If I have those forums loaded up in IE and all my other browsing in Chrome, then everything is fine.
I was kind of dismissive of this complaint before, but since installing Win8 (I was previously running Ubuntu), this is my #2 complaint. It turns out that basically everything I do is in the browser, and hideous font rendering makes Windows much worse than Ubuntu. Yeah, I could switch to Firefox, but the difference between Ubuntu and Windows is smaller than the difference between Chrome and Firefox.
Yeah, it's really horrible, no joke. And I'm shocked that basically 99% of people don't even notice it. From the latest info I've seen, the devs think it could be fixed in version 26 stable. Anyway I'm an Opera man for now and couldn't be happier. The smooth scrolling is very good on Opera too, and Chrome doesn't have smooth scrolling implemented yet. Technically you can enable it but it didn't look very good when I did.
Facebook is the one tab that consistently behaves oddly in Chrome for me. Crashes, frozen scrolling, no rendering at all, etc. I'm guessing that there's just an insane amount of scripting driving Facebook's pages, and even Chrome's interpreter is struggling to keep up now.
They do it to plugins that you don't install from in-browser. It's a small price to pay to ensure everyone doesn't get stuck with the ask.com toolbar in a few years.
