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Google Chrome Causing Freezing and Crashing on New Mac Notebooks

Flitzy said:
I won't support the arrogant, elitist snobs at Google. It amazes me that they've duped the tech world into thinking they're, somehow, looking to further technology when that's the furthest thing from their minds.
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Yeah I think we should go back to Altavista as our main search engine. And you are right, Google Voice hasn't had any impact on the way many of us use telephones... Funny, I haven't had a phone bill/plan in 4 years and have never paid for texting. And Google Scholar? talk about useless... (sarcasm).
 
sparkie7 said:
why can't someone make an awesome browser :confused:

Firefox sucks
Chrome is weird
and Safari is just average :rolleyes:
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Can you define an awesome browser? I've been surfing the net since 1994 mostly on Windows machines.

I've been using Firefox for the past 5 years and LOVE it. I read websites, search articles being rendered, Youtube, Hulu, but most of all reading/surfing. I love the ability to type in the URL window and it pulls up the last X pages that had that keyword. I also love the Private Browsing as it is useful for gift shopping where our machine is used by a lot of family and nice to know people aren't seeing that I looked/bought something on Amazon or wherever.

I'll admit that IE is slow and has been not-so-great since 2000, but FF has really shined in the Wintel world IMHO...and it has a ton of support out of the box plus lots of plugins.

I've never touched Chrome. I've only used Safari on my iPhone and iPad...Firefox is on my Mac Mini.

So please tell us/me what I'm missing with FF...either compared to other browsers or your vision of an awesome browser.
 
tninety said:
It's sent to them because it's necessary for that information to be sent for search autocomplete to even work. Everything they do with this information is disclosed and the feature can be turned off, and they're not sneaky about it.

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114836&p=settings_privacy

It's not like they're actively scouring your web history, looking for every opportunity to show your ads targeted specifically toward everything in it, like the other user implied. These are all features that make browsing a lot easier (that can be turned off), and not everything is sent.
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Autocomplete, and search.

Let's recap, you called the guy wrong and stupid for saying "Chrome passes all your browsing habits to Google".

Now, everything you type into your url bar is sent to Google. Everything you type in your url bar equates to everything you do on the web, which are your browsing habits.

Regarding your last paragraph, I'm not really making a tinfoil hat statement here or trying to make a case that Google are either wrong or right.
 
dwsolberg said:
Having Google Chrome open gobbles up battery power because of the way it enables GPU acceleration, causing the dedicated graphics to fire up.

Ironically, this update to Chrome is probably a good one for all users with a MacBook Pro because it will likely increase battery life.
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IIRC Safari has GPU acceleration on Lion as well yet doesn't exhibit the same problems so I guess it depends on how the GPU acceleration is achieved but that doesn't excuse a user space application causing a kernel panic - I can only hope that maybe we'll see the problem resolved quickly.

Btw, the increase in battery usage when running Chrome has more to do with the process-per-tab model that it employs verses the way in which Safari/Webkit2 implement the multi-process model.
 
Renzatic said:
I think it only does that if you've enabled Instant. Which I'm pretty sure is disabled by default.
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It is disabled by default, but it still does this with it turned off. The comment in the settings regarding instant is that results may be logged. It may be that they are not logged with out instant turned on but instead discarded.
 
Flitzy said:
Sounds like it's your own fault for using Chrome.

Seriously, why would you even waste your time on that spyware?
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Spyware? LOL. This is the reason why Apple fans are a laughing stock and nope not a Google fanboi here.

Anybody remember Bonzi Buddy and crap like that? Those are actual spyware.
 
Kernel panics should not be caused by userspace applications, but the situation here seems like the graphics drivers (which run in kernelspace) are faulty, and whenever Chrome uses a certain graphics resource, the driver is causing the crash and kernel panic. Apple has acknowledged the problem and are probably working on a fix with Intel, so don't worry about it, just use Safari for the next couple of days.
 
I've never understood the need for Chrome and why some people choose to use it. Safari on Mac, IE on Windows and Firefox on both as a good backup for the odd iffy website. Outside of artificial benchmarks, they're all just the same in terms of speed - i.e. limited by the broadband speed.
 
hmmm

As many users here have already pointed out, Chrome is the reason behind many kernel panics. That is good news.

Chrome really screwed with my work PC, so for that alone I never bothered to install it on my iMac.

Agree about the meh qualities of Safari and Firefox, but they're okay in SL so I'll deal.
 
I have never had problems with Chrome, it is my favorite browser. Hopefully they get this issue fixed though, as I'm getting one of the newer MacBook Pro's soon.
 
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about, Chrome is working fine on my 2012 rBMP.
 
Flitzy said:
I won't support the arrogant, elitist snobs at Google. It amazes me that they've duped the tech world into thinking they're, somehow, looking to further technology when that's the furthest thing from their minds.
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I'm sure the GPS navigated automated car is a concept only a complete luddite would love.

Spanky Deluxe said:
I've never understood the need for Chrome and why some people choose to use it. Safari on Mac, IE on Windows and Firefox on both as a good backup for the odd iffy website. Outside of artificial benchmarks, they're all just the same in terms of speed - i.e. limited by the broadband speed.
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This is very true. Chrome might score better on one test, Firefox scores better on another, but seriously...these are benchmarks measured in bare milliseconds. Even if browser A were to clock a quarter as fast across the entire benchmark suite, no one would notice the difference in any real world examples.

I use Chrome simply because I like the UI. It's nice and minimal. Other than that and font rendering, I'm hard pressed to tell the difference between it and, say, IE or Firefox.

Also, as to the kernal panic thing going on...I'm sorry, but I gotta say it. All this talk you hear around here about how Apples never mess up and blah blah blah is just practically begging for it...

OSX: It Just Works. :p
 
slffl said:
I can't stand Chrome! I've been using it on my work PC for a while now, and it's ALWAYS locking up and crashing, and most of the time it's while browsing Google! Especially their RSS reader. It's horrible and I'm amazed so many people think it's so great.
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Even if you don't like/use Chrome (I'm a Firefox user myself), they came up with some good ideas that everyone else eventually copied including:

- Running each tab as a separate process so that if a tab crashes it does not take down the whole browser.
- Running plugins in a separate process so that when a plugin (i.e. Flash) crashes is does not take down the browser.
- First to focus on Java script performance. Their Java engine blew away all
the competition at the time and started fierce competition here.

These helped everyone.

Others copied some of the GUI ideas as well such as the start page showing your favorites and some of the minimalistic ideas.
 
JohnDoe98 said:
Come-on. I'm genuinely interested in knowing if it is worth trying and I'm sure others are too. Don't just spew any random nonsense that comes to mind, but explain things properly please.

(...)blah blah Safari blah blah(...)
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I just listed a lot of advantages that Chrome has, I'm not comparing it with Safari at all (although I personally think it's a lot better). I'm not going to waste my time explaining exactly why the UX is so great, it's my preference (quickly: ergonomics, unified search and address bar, minimal interface, tab management etc.); or finding you a source that Chrome is fast (seriously?).
 
subsonix said:
nto your url bar is sent to Google. Everything you type in your url bar equates to everything you do on the web, which are your browsing habits
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Really? I guess all that clicking and typing into other text boxes (like this one) has been entirely for naught.
 
Bezetos said:
I just listed a lot of advantages that Chrome has, I'm not comparing it with Safari at all (although I personally think it's a lot better). I'm not going to waste my time explaining exactly why the UX is so great, it's my preference (quickly: ergonomics, unified search and address bar, minimal interface, tab management etc.); or finding you a source that Chrome is fast (seriously?).
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When you talk about advantages you are making a comparative claim, that's the meaning of an advantage. If all you wanted to do was highlight features that Chrome offers, why did you respond to my request to know the advantages that Chrome offers over Safari? Perhaps you should have responded to someone else.

As for minimal interface, Safari in full screen pretty much shows me only the webpage and the address bar/search bar which will be unified in Safari 6. I don't see how you get anymore minimal than that. And the Tab management in ML looks amazing.
 
I had been having this problem on the macbook pro retina...

I switched to the canary build and it went away. Also, canary is built with retina in mind (as has been reported numerous times).

Give it a shot air owners. I run into very few issues... no more than when I was running firefox.
 
So happy!

I am so happy I have a old macbook with the Intel graphics chip x3100!
Even if this computer is old and slow.


Glad I don't run out and buy the latest stuff,
How could a bug like this just slip out! its crazy!

oh well, what can you do?
Use firefox for the mean time, its better then safari and IE6,7,8,9

Even though firefox still leaks like crazy.....
 
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