Google chrome has crashed 4 times this am. wtf?

6/14/2012 12:21:49 PM

Oh snap!

6/14/2012 12:27:59 PM

probably a plugin issue

i just deal with it and stubbornly continue to use that resource hogging browser

6/14/2012 12:44:33 PM

just go back to firefox and use the memory restart add-on when it starts to bog down: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-restart/

6/14/2012 2:34:19 PM

BLASPHEMY

6/14/2012 5:58:58 PM

yeah it was weird.

restored, then closed everything. The rest of the day didn't have an issue.

6/14/2012 7:00:12 PM

^^^ LOL!

GOD DAMN THIS MULTI-PROCESS BROWSER BRINGING ME STABILITY AT THE EXPENSE USING 25% MORE RAM. I ONLY HAVE 8 GB OF RAM GOOGLE AND HALF OF IT IS FREE! I'M NOT MADE OUT OF MEMORIES

6/14/2012 7:00:46 PM

stability = crashing 4 times one morning?

6/14/2012 7:23:00 PM

^^ surely you're not arguing that firefox DOESN'T have memory leak issues...?

6/14/2012 7:40:42 PM

i figured your timestamps were close enough that he was responding to me

6/14/2012 7:48:18 PM

1. Go to chrome://flags/
2. Enable "click-to-play"
3. Restart the browser
4. Go to chrome://settings/
5. Find your way to the section on "Content Settings" and then go to "click-to-play" under Plugins
6. Click "OK" and every tab you open from now on will have these grey placeholders where plugin content normally goes; just click them and the plugin content will play.

6/14/2012 8:29:50 PM

^^ Not at all. Firefox is shit. I'm arguing that bitching about Chrome being a "resource hog" is fucking laughable. It's like a man who has been shot being worried about a damn thorn scratch.

^^^ Google Chrome is stable. Sometimes you can't compensate for user error. You don't say a BMW handles like shit because your dumbass over drove it into a ditch, do you?

6/14/2012 11:46:12 PM

So if I pull up a website, like YouTube, that makes chrome crash, that's the web browsing equivalent of driving into a ditch? Duly noted

6/15/2012 12:30:28 AM

When millions of people are pulling up the same website as you are and it doesn't crash, then yup. It is user error.

6/15/2012 12:42:31 AM

maybe one day i'll figure out how to watch a youtube video without making a mistake, its pretty complicated after all

and it crashes for me maybe 1% of the time. but i guess me and raiden are the only ones...

6/15/2012 1:41:56 AM

What else is going on when YouTube causes your browser to crash?

I mean sometimes I crash while trying to watch a YouTube video, but that's because I have several dozen other tabs open too.

6/15/2012 3:04:00 AM

Quote :

"1. Go to chrome://flags/ 2. Enable "click-to-play" 3. Restart the browser 4. Go to chrome://settings/ 5. Find your way to the section on "Content Settings" and then go to "click-to-play" under Plugins 6. Click "OK" and every tab you open from now on will have these grey placeholders where plugin content normally goes; just click them and the plugin content will play. "

Thanks lewisje, I'll give that a shot.

6/15/2012 9:07:17 AM

firefox is a far more efficient browser and I don't see any stability issues. chrome would regularly use a ton of memory to do the same stuff that would take 20% of the memory in firefox. open the same 25 tabs in both browsers and test yourself

6/15/2012 9:13:21 AM

who gives a shit about memory usage anymore? memory is cheap!

6/15/2012 9:57:29 AM

chrome ain't bad if you only have 3-4 tabs open

6/15/2012 10:17:42 AM

^^^It's probably because Firefox doesn't (yet) separate tabs into different processes; the downside is that there's no way to kill a misbehaving tab without killing the browser itself, unless the problem was with a plugin.

6/15/2012 10:57:00 AM

you dont have misbehaving tabs when you control javascript and flash behavior

6/15/2012 11:49:44 AM

when i first started using chrome (when it came out), it pretty much never crashed, months on end. and if it did, or if the computer crashed, i got the option to reopen all tabs that where open before the crash.

for the past few months now though, chrome has been crashing a lot, at least 3-4 times a month, sometimes more (i still browse the same sites i used to, and still keep open the same number of tabs as i used to). and when it crashes or when the computer crashes, upon restarting chrome, i don't always get the option to reopen tabs which were open before the crash.

wtf google... i thought technology was supposed to progress, not regress?

Quote :

"2. Enable "click-to-play""

There is no "click-to-play".


[Edited on June 15, 2012 at 6:48 PM. Reason : ]

6/15/2012 6:44:12 PM

I guess that was taken out of chrome://flags and made available by default now...so here's the revised list:

1. Go to chrome://settings/
2. Find your way to the section on "Content Settings" and then go to "click-to-play" under Plugins
3. Click "OK" and every tab you open from now on will have these grey placeholders where plugin content normally goes; just click them and the plugin content will play.

6/15/2012 7:05:14 PM

thanks

6/15/2012 7:11:32 PM

^^^ You're doing it wrong.

6/15/2012 9:53:20 PM

what am i doing?

what am i doing wrong?

how am i doing it wrong?

6/16/2012 12:06:27 AM

Quote :

"When millions of people are pulling up the same website as you are and it doesn't crash, then yup. It is user error."

6/16/2012 9:30:37 AM

"hey, check out this funny video *inserts youtube link*"

"ah shit, my browser crashed from watching this video with a bunch of other tabs open"

"YOU MUST HAVE FUCKED SOMETHING UP!!1"

6/16/2012 9:53:57 AM

Chrome has started to crash on me ~50% of the time I try to print

6/16/2012 10:31:23 AM

So... What you're saying is that if something doesn't work for you, but the same exact website works for someone else with the same browser but on a different computer that it is still the browser's fault? Explain this shit to me. Seems like either your computer is configured in such a way that it fucks up Google Chrome or you have something set up incorrectly. Both of which comes back to you.

6/16/2012 10:50:13 AM

Yeah. It might not even be user error, it could just be a weird config problem or a problem specific to your computer.

I can't remember the last time chrome crashed (in its entirety) on either my work or home machine, though every few months it seems like the flash plugin will bring one of the tabs down (and I've never noticed that happening on youtube.)

[Edited on June 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM. Reason : .]

6/16/2012 10:53:11 AM

all i'm saying is i've never had Firefox or IE crash while watching a Google Youtube video

^^did you work on development for Chrome or something?

^i figure its a plugin issue like i mentioned in my first post in this thread...i just dont get why merbig thinks Chrome is some infallible browser that only crashes if the user messes up

6/16/2012 10:53:59 AM

...and I've never had Chrome crash while watching a Google Youtube video. I'd have to assume that if more than a handful of users had whatever problem you seem to have, it'd be a big problem some of us would have heard of before now.

^ so do you want to fix it or do you even use chrome anymore? What plugins do you have installed?

[Edited on June 16, 2012 at 10:57 AM. Reason : .]

6/16/2012 10:56:26 AM

Chrome is my primary browser, and 99% of the time I can watch youtube videos just fine

Half the time it crashes while watching youtube videos seems to be in TWW threads with like 30 embedded youtube videos posted

6/16/2012 10:59:18 AM

I must stay out of those threads, I guess, and probably not for browser-stability reasons.

6/16/2012 11:00:40 AM

might even be the video card on my laptop, though other browsers seem to do just fine

6/16/2012 11:01:54 AM

To get rid of the problems caused by threads loaded with embedded Flash videos, enable "click-to-play" in your browser; it's built into Opera and Chrome, and the Firefox betas have it too (but hidden away in an internal preferences menu, just like click-to-play was in Chrome for about 2 years): http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57449840-12/security-tweaks-pdfs-herald-new-firefox-builds/

For older versions of Firefox, I still recommend using NoScript in plugin-blocking mode: http://noscript.net/features#contentblocking

For Safari 5+, I think Plugin Customs is still the best way to go: http://safari.laissemoichercherca.com/plugincustoms

For Internet Explorer you're SOL, ActiveX Filtering is a joke because it's so coarse-grained (either block all plugins on a page, or allow all plugins on the page), and of course that's not available in IE8 and earlier, for those of you still using Windows XP and earlier.

6/16/2012 11:34:42 AM

NOW FIX MY PRINTING PROBLEM

6/16/2012 11:57:52 AM

stop using chrome to print webpages

it sux at printing

6/16/2012 1:05:34 PM

6/16/2012 1:13:27 PM