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Google Chrome Causing Freezing and Crashing on New Mac Notebooks
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You've got no idea how a proper operating system with memory protection is supposed to work, do you?
Oletros
macrumors 603
What spyware?
Flashblock or disable plug in. Then execute on demand.
Problem solved
This isn't just an issue with the new Airs, it's been happening on my 2011 Air for at least 6 months. I get full system freezes every couple of days when using Chrome, but no problems for weeks on end if I stick with Safari. Shame, as I prefer Chrome for browsing.
Oletros
macrumors 603
Yes. 🙂 If there is a hardware bug, that is. I think it's kind of hard for Intel to design its chips in a way that no systems running on it can crash. 😉
Chrome passes all your browsing habits to Google. Have you never wondered how it always puts ads up for things which you were looking for 5 minutes ago?
Google mail reads you emails for the same thing. Google maps records location...
I could go on about them stealing your wifi data with Streetview cars...
Google is Evil and their products have no place on any of my devices.
Google giving lessons in OS development, sure 🙄
Anyway, this has been an issue with Chrome for some times, Google tend to avoid pretty standard frameworks for no visible benefit but it tends to create instability for whenever Apple updates the OS or the hardware...
The same happened with the retina MBP introduction where Chrome had a hard time with text because Google avoided the standard framework.
Still I wonder what they were sending to the GPU, and how. It would be interesting to see a postmortem on this.
Anyway, this has been an issue with Chrome for some times, Google tend to avoid pretty standard frameworks for no visible benefit but it tends to create instability for whenever Apple updates the OS or the hardware...
The same happened with the retina MBP introduction where Chrome had a hard time with text because Google avoided the standard framework.
Still I wonder what they were sending to the GPU, and how. It would be interesting to see a postmortem on this.
faroZ06
macrumors 68040
Oh my mistake, they added it now. It used to require an extension that didn't seem to work. I'll edit my post so I don't get more replies about this.
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According to some survey, Chrome was the most popular as of a few months ago. They judge that using user agent detection, but I don't think IE users are the kind of people who browse a lot. They do surf the cyber superhighway, though.
I encountered a guy on a Minecraft server who uses Internet Explorer on his Mac, and it's not even an old Mac (PowerMac G5).
I have found on my Early 2012 Mac Notebook that Safari freezes sometimes as well, not crashing the whole machine, however. I am assuming it is the ongoing problems with Adobe Flash, which never seem to go away
flottenheimer
macrumors 68000
Funny. Several articles have already claimed that Chrome is now the worlds leading browser.
And these stats support that: http://gs.statcounter.com/
Further reading: http://gs.statcounter.com/press/chrome-overtakes-ie-globally-monthly
PS: On StatCounter GlobalStats sample size "Stats are based on over 15 billion page views per month recorded across over 3 million websites. We are not aware of any publicly available stats with a larger sample size."
a0me
macrumors 65816
Old iMac 24' (Late 2006) running Snow Leopard here. With Safari and Firefox it's a one-way ticket to beachball town.
Safari takes over a minute to launch and I have to wait a few seconds between each click before the menu shows up. Completely unusable.
With Chrome, the interface response time is WAY better and Chrome is the only usable browser on my machine.
beowulf70
macrumors 6502
This is disappointing. I've been using Chrome for over a year now on Mac Pro's and MacBook Pro's at work and loved it... Very fast and never had any problems. I was looking forward to using it on my new rMBP [as soon as it arrives].
Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fixed shortly. 🙄
Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fixed shortly. 🙄
a0me
macrumors 65816
Not in my experience. On my late 2006 iMac 24' running Snow Leopard, Safari and Firefox are slower than a slow motion replay of a snail race during the Siberian mid-winter championships.
Chrome just works.
I'm curious, how did you discover this and why haven't you reported it since a discovery like this would be headline news?
Chrome doesn't send any data unless you allow it. Google can track your browsing habits because the sites you browse implements Google Analytics and/or some other Google service, such as ads, so it doesn't matter which browser you use since the tracking is done by the sites rather than the browser.
You have to accept that if you want to get the free content of the internet you'll have to live with ads and don't you prefer to get ads that you might be interested in rather than some random ones?
Google doesn't store any personal information about you, they track you by cookies and you can easily clear your cookies and Google will "lose track" of you.
They don't sell information to 3rd parties like some believe, that would be like throwing away the primary reason for 3rd parties to subscribe to their services, for pocket change. Why would they do that?
Complete nonsense. I see PCs in the office blue-screen all the time because Maya or Z-Brush manage to tickle the OpenGL ICD in some funny way.
Drivers are drivers. When they have bugs they'll crash the system, and when they're under constant development the way GPU drivers are, they'll have bugs.
You can do this on Chrome (two finger swipe to go fwd and back). I use Chrome and the only thing I really miss from Safari is being able to use cmd+1/2/3 etc to call-up each bookmark in the bookmarks bar.
Sounds like this issue, although triggered by Chrome, is Apple's fault.
MH01
Suspended
LOL....
The key point here is that chrome crashing is actually crashing/freezing up the new MBPs. That is a major step backwards for an OS, something you would have expected from a M$ OS a few generations back..... tsk tsk Apple, your slipping!
I've had Chrome die plenty of times on my windows 7 machine, those crashes were handled gracefully.
I guess we will not be seeing any more I am a PC v I am a Mac commercials the way things are going, with security and stabablity dropping on the mac side, I guess they will keep quiet 😉
The key point here is that chrome crashing is actually crashing/freezing up the new MBPs. That is a major step backwards for an OS, something you would have expected from a M$ OS a few generations back..... tsk tsk Apple, your slipping!
I've had Chrome die plenty of times on my windows 7 machine, those crashes were handled gracefully.
I guess we will not be seeing any more I am a PC v I am a Mac commercials the way things are going, with security and stabablity dropping on the mac side, I guess they will keep quiet 😉
MH01
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hmmmm interesting. What OS are you PCs in the office running? I've had plenty of crashes of the GPU drivers under windows 7 and they have not resulted in blue screens, the only way I blue screen my PC is if I overclock it to far.
Weather its window or OS X, no program should be crashing the OS. Especially under OS X as apple controls the drivers, in a closed environment.
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This issue will be fixed in days, not in months, do not worry.
YES! Very seriously! When a user-space application is able to crash/freeze an entire OS then this is f\/cking serious! Ever heard of "Denial of Service" attacks? And who knows, maybe there's just another security hole being opened by that... so Google "just" crashed the OS, but a malicious application could try to exploit such a weakness.
Cheers
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Yes, for sure! That's a FACT! Everyone knows that.
But what about you?!