Google Chrome Causing Freezing and Crashing on New Mac Notebooks

[wizard]

To be fair browser technology is complicated.

With every vendor claiming their browser is "awesome". I'm at a loss too.

However most of the Broswers fall on their faces these days due to user interaction problems. In that regard Safari seems to be the least borked of them all. I once was a huge Firfox user but that has turned from a leader to a cluster f* of features and crap I don't need.

At least with Safari Apple focuses core functionality a little more than average.

 

[pwhitehead]

Face it guys; apple hates google, even more then they adobe! Dont expect google products not to have bugs, lol.. Use firefox, works faultlessly and has more features and themes too. Sorry to chrome users; QQ cheers!

 

[TSE]

why can't someone make an awesome browser

Firefox sucks
Chrome is weird
and Safari is just average

If Firefox is weird and Firefox sucks, how can Safari be just average? Wouldn't that make it "the best"? You can't be average without someone above you.

 

[hkim1983]

Err...Chrome bashing aside, I can verify that this bug happened to me on a 2012 13" MBP, but it only happened once. After that single incident, I stopped using Chrome in fullscreen mode, and it has yet to reoccur...

Hopefully this matter is addressed promptly. While Chrome can be quirky at times, it's still my preferred browser on both Windows and OS X.

 

[DavidTheExpert]

I wonder if Google isn't sabotaging their products for Apple devices on purpose. Google searches already run really slowly/buggy on iOS, and now Chrome is causing bugs and freezing on Macbooks? Seems fishy...

I know Google and Apple have a checkered past, but it seems foolish for them to do such a thing, so it's probably not true. But still, I wonder. Honestly I wish it were true, because the only other explanation is that Google is doing a terrible job at quality control. Their products used to work flawlessly, but are now riddled with problems. I miss the old Google. The one that was happy to integrate their API with any software that came along, and fixed every bug before it even left alpha testing.

 

[caligomez]

So, might this be an issue if used with Parallels running Windows 7? I don't use Chrome, except on my work desktop (Lenovo running Windows 7) and since that's where all my work bookmarks are stored, sometimes I would have to run Chrome on a virtual machine (when on the road).

I ask, before I'm about to get myself a new 13" MBA, and if this bug affects the VM, then it would be a major inconvenience.

Thanks for any input!

 

[foodog]

LOL


Listen Apple, you gotta make it available to set chrome as a default browser in ios because I ain't comin' back to safari what so ever.

Apple's not done till Chrome won't run....

 

[caligomez]

Haha!

No joke, the ad featured right under this article has the Google chrome logo (at almost directly in line with the icon in article pic) and says to download Chrome today...

Awesome.

I love it.. Google Adwords FAIL!

 

[AlexH]

If Firefox is weird and Firefox sucks, how can Safari be just average? Wouldn't that make it "the best"? You can't be average without someone above you.

You can be average and still be the best, if, as the poster describes, the other options "suck". I'm not defending his position, just pointing the logic.

 

[Pakaku]

why can't someone make an awesome browser

Firefox sucks
Chrome is weird
and Safari is just average

I used Camino for a while, I thought it was a nice browser. I might go back to it if Safari bugs me

 

[formerpc]

While I don't use Chrome, whenever I try to go to Google Maps, my entire system freezes up just like it's described in the article for Chrome users. Really frustrating. (I have the brand new 15" Macbook Pro 2.3GHz, for reference)

 

[a.gomez]

wow, well thank heavens for Firefox... can not imagine someone being stuck using the trash that is Safari.

 

[TimAlia]

Ehem... google(.com) itself has been causing Safari to freeze up and bug out. I can't even use the touchpad "back" gesture without google bugging out.

 

[CapnJackGig]

I'd rather suffer crashes than use Safari.

 

[dona83]

I use Google Chrome on my work PC, but on Mac I consider Safari and Chrome to be equal.

 

[akadmon]

I've not use chrome since I discovered it's basically spyware. Ive also deleted all the other Goggle trojans, such as Google Earth an!d Picasa) from my machine, Bottom line:is stick with Safari or FF. Google IS evil!

 

[mended]

Holy Smokes. I thought it was my new macbook pro was the problem. Finally, I know it is chrome and not the macbook.

 

[a0me]

am i the only one who uses chrome?

I've been using Chrome on my Mac (and work PC) for a couple of years.
Love the password, bookmarks and tab sync feature between devices, and Chrome's interface is A LOT snappier than Safari or Firefox, particularly on my aging iMac, on which the other browsers have become all but unusable (one-way ticket to beachball town).

 

[Prodo123]

So when Chrome freezes and crashes Macs, Google blames it on Apple.
Seriously?
Just wow.

I switched from IE6-7-8 to Chrome to Firefox to IE9 to Safari. I like Safari the best, Firefox second, IE9 third and Chrome last. The way Chrome renders things and the UI for some reason doesn't sit well with me... :/

 

[ScottishDuck]

So when Chrome freezes and crashes Macs, Google blames it on Apple.
Seriously?
Just wow.

I switched from IE6-7-8 to Chrome to Firefox to IE9 to Safari. I like Safari the best, Firefox second, IE9 third and Chrome last. The way it renders things and the UI for some reason doesn't sit well with me... :/

Because an operating system shouldn't be allowed to crash simply from running a browser. It's bad security if anything. Duh.

 

[Prodo123]

Because an operating system shouldn't be allowed to crash simply from running a browser. It's bad security if anything. Duh.

Macs don't crash when they run anything else.
They crash when they run Chrome.

I think the source of the problem is quite clear.


Allow me to sue Microsoft when my computer crashes due to me running a poorly-coded trivial app. Because you know, such a trivial app shouldn't cause the operating system to crash.

 

[leman]

Funny, because its safari that has been frequently crashing on me since Leopard, both on all my macs and on the iphone and ipad. Chrome has always been much faster and more stable, at least in my case. Plus, chrome has more convenience features. Already the automatic search function is a perfect reason to use it over safari.

In this case, it's apple's/intel's driver that sucks. If software works with one GPU and crashes with another one, then it's clearly the GPU driver.

And anyway, on a bug-free os no user space software should be able to cause a kernel panic. Such problems are always os bugs.

 

[Trepanator]

I wonder if Google isn't sabotaging their products for Apple devices on purpose. Google searches already run really slowly/buggy on iOS, and now Chrome is causing bugs and freezing on Macbooks? Seems fishy...

I know Google and Apple have a checkered past, but it seems foolish for them to do such a thing, so it's probably not true. But still, I wonder. Honestly I wish it were true, because the only other explanation is that Google is doing a terrible job at quality control. Their products used to work flawlessly, but are now riddled with problems. I miss the old Google. The one that was happy to integrate their API with any software that came along, and fixed every bug before it even left alpha testing.

Google seems to do good with web applications, but those are a lot more forgiving than application code... I think the programmers at Google who work on the Mac version of Chrome are just incompetent. They had another issue like this when Lion came out (related to the 64-bit kernel) that they eventually fixed. Google can blame the operating system all they want, but Chrome is the only application that has ever caused kernel panics on my machines.

 

[realeric]

I love it.. Google Adwords FAIL!

As an advertiser I would never ever use Google placements ad on display network. More than 99% clicked on the Google ad by mistake. Don't be evil, Google!

 

[Oletros]

Macs don't crash when they run anything else.
They crash when they run Chrome.

I think the source of the problem is quite clear.

Yes, a graphics driver bug