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I've certainly had something equivalent to the first one in Chrome frequently, seemingly when it's waiting for an unresponsive child process, often when closing
by ubercow13 7y ago
I've certainly had something equivalent to the first one in Chrome frequently, seemingly when it's waiting for an unresponsive child process, often when closing a tab. It won't lock up as the UI seems to be separated from the other processes well enough to allow it to keep rendering loading animations etc. However every part of the browser will stop functioning including showing any tab content or opening any menu, for 10s of seconds at a time.
I've also had Chrome destroy my browser profile completely many times. It will start up and say something like 'your profile was unrecoverably corrupted and has been deleted'
Both are very complex pieces of software with lots of bugs.
- StudentStuff 7y agoI wonder if Chrome is using Sqlite under the hood, I know Electron apps will lose their data entirely if any bit of the database is corrupt (Sqlite doesn't handle inconsistent states well :c). On a slightly different tangent, you likely have a failing disk or RAM.
- ubercow13 7y agoYep, certainly possible. I think Firefox avoids this by keeping a few complete profile backups to fall back on.
- nh2 7y agoI can confirm both. Often, closing a tab in Chromium simply does nothing. Chromium has lost my tabs multiple times (not by profile corruption, but not restoring them on startup). Firefox hasn't lost my tabs for over 10 years -- one big reason I use it (it did lose them ~5 times but I could always restore them from the backup file in the profile directory).