Chrome 88 After initial opening of browser immediately freezes(hangs)

Chrome is always unresponsive on startup for about 3 seconds. Similarly it often becomes unresponsive and freezes when going to Downloads.

A frozen tab cannot execute tasks, including event handlers or timers. It is visible in the tab strip and its content is loaded in memory. It is unfrozen on ...

A frozen tab cannot execute tasks, including event handlers or timers. It is visible in the tab strip and its content is loaded in memory. It is unfrozen on ...

Expected three windows to come up with the appropriate tabs. Instead, things start to open up, but then everything grinds to a halt - spinners stop spinning.

Chrome 79 was just released with the new tab freezing feature turned on by default. Does anyone know of a way to get around this when working with setTimeouts ...

I have tried every possible method to fix this, from redownloading, rollingback to older versions, disabling extensions, anti-virus, hardware ...

Another solution to fixing the Chrome freezing issue is to clear browsing data such as cached images and files. Here is how to do so.

I'm having an issue with Google Chrome on my Desktop windows 10, its up to date with everything but this morning the mouse click got froze.

My chrome keeps freezing. If I'm watching a youtube video, the image stops but the sound continues. If I'm playing solitaire, no matter where I click nothing ...