So why did Chrome crash Windows, Mac OSX and Linux? (Something you still haven't answered, a fault is still a crash)
An userland application can cause a fault in the kernel to be hit, and panic (BSOD/crash) the system.
Chrome did not BSOD Windows, or panic Linux. Chrome (in userland), caused a chain of events that lead kernel code to take the system down.
For another example, with the Vista RTM the latest VMware build would BSOD my system within a second of starting a VM. I could do this every time I clicked the userland VMware GUI on "Start VM".
The actual problem was in the kernel VMware drivers, and the fact that the drivers failed to properly setup timer interrupts on multi-socket systems.
Athough the sequence was initiated at the userland GUI - the actual BSOD didn't come from the GUI, or even from the VMware kernel drivers. The bugcheck came from core Microsoft kernel code which received a spurious timer interrupt - and deliberately took the system down. That build of VMware was unusable on multi-socket systems - it would BSOD every time that you tried to start a VM. (Single socket systems were OK.)
"Userland" unfortunately for your argument is different on every operating system and Userland covers different areas of the OS. But there is one thing I know that will cause a Kernel fault/crash in Userland mode on any OS.
Erratic memory leak. I remember seeing some benchmarks of Chrome when it was first released, it measured up in the Gigabytes in terms of memory. I don't know about recent versions though.
A userland memory leak will not BSOD/panic a system unless the OS has a fault in its handling of low memory situations, or fails to enforce quotas on processes. Windows will not panic, although once it starts using page file space for memory overflows it can become so slow that it appears to be hung.
Nice picture - it supports my position that nothing in userland (yellow) can panic the system. Only kernel (red) code can do that.
I submitted the logs to Google AS I've had this behavior several times and not just on Microsoft OSes. (If you read my post properly)
Please, you said "I filed a bug report and submitted the BSOD logs but companies never seem to pay attention.". How is one supposed to "properly" read such an ambiguous statement to say that you submitted logs to Google?
