Chrome is freezing Ubuntu when opening a tab or restarting

The problem is with Google Chrome v44. You can keep working by starting chrome without gpu acceleration: google-chrome --disable-gpu.

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Thank you for the report, this is a known issue in M81 that was fixed in M82 and later. We could not merge the fix into M81 due to crashes it was causing. [ ...

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 ...

Every time that Chrome freezes on my W10, I open a TaskManager and kill that process, resulting in an immediate restore of Chrome's proper ...

It seems there is either a memory management bug in Chrome, or Chrome keeps a separate copy of the Chromium framework which has become corrupt ...

I found that I was consuming up to 178.0 in Chrome Task Manager. Clearing the browser history has been reported to be effective in reducing CPU ...

I've had Chrome completely freeze up and become unresponsive. The rest of my PC is totally fine though and working as normal when this happens.

And I think it's only right when I hit the page, it doesn't start fine and then go bad - it just doesn't work at all the moment the page loads.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the Tab Freeze feature in Google Chrome for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10.