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Chrome Frequently Crashing on macOS

18 points by nomilk 3y ago

About once a day while using chrome on macOS (Ventura) I'll see the mac spinning pinwheel and it won't let me change tabs. I close chrome entirely and can restart tabs. Once I waited 10 minutes and it was still showing the pinwheel and I couldn't change tabs. I initially thought it might be unique to my laptop, but yesterday it happened on an almost fresh install of sonoma on a work laptop. So I'm leaning toward it being a chrome thing rather than a 'me' thing. Anyone else?

solardev 3y ago
Do you have some bad extensions, maybe? It hasn't crashed on me in a long, long time. I can remember it crashing maybe like 2 or 3 times in the last five years, across several different Macs, both work and personal, Intel and Apple Silicon. Some external device (special webcam? mic? bluetooth?) that maybe doesn't play well with the browser access requests? Maybe you can dig through the crash logs... https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en
- nomilk 3y ago
  The fresh install had zero extensions. An no unusual bluetooth or other devices. The crashes happen with and without external monitor so not sure it's that. Thanks for the crash logs link, wasn't aware of those but will check next time it happens.
  - solardev 3y ago
    FYI you might have to turn it on beforehand, and it might send logs to Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96817?sjid=5368379926751263010-NC#zippy=%2Ccomputer https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96817?sjid=53683799...
schappim 3y ago
Chrome is not having a great time on Sonoma: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1726248785683321050 https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1726248785683321050
- swah 3y ago
  Some users say that its gone after reinstalling the OS, but I have zero energy to do that... :)
  - nomilk 3y ago
    Just happened to me on Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81), which was the latest available as of 2 days ago, but I notice another update (Sonoma 14.1.2) is now available. EDIT: just updated to 14.1.2 (23B92). Hopefully it stops happening. Will report back if it happens again.
bobberkarl 3y ago
I have the same issue on Edge, Edge Beta and Edge Dev. I thought that was a MsEdge issue. Happy to learn it's a chromium one.
dear-leader 3y ago
This has been happening to me as well for the last few weeks. I’d say since around the time Sonoma was released, although I’ve continued running Ventura the entire time. There was an update to Ventura at the time Sonoma was released, which I’ve considered as a possible cause. I experience the same spinning wheel that rarely if ever resolves on its own, but I’ve noticed that if I click outside of the Chrome window to change focus to another app, and then immediately click back into a Chrome window, the spinning wheel is immediately resolved.
meitros 3y ago
Do you have a lot of tabs open? The one time I ran into something similar was out of memory issues
- nomilk 3y ago
  I do have quite a few open, perhaps a few dozen but not more than 50-60. It’s on a MacBook Pro with 96GB memory so I don’t think memory should be a problem, although I might check periodically to see if I can spot anything unusual.
charlesabarnes 3y ago
I've been hunting for a solution for this for weeks. The Chrome team said they fixed it and locked their support thread frustratingly. It seems to occur most often when I am switching from one app to Chrome with Chrome in full screen mode. I do not have the issue if I use Chrome in a window. When the pinwheel does come up, it usually helps to navigate away and click on an empty desktop, then come back. Interestingly enough when I do that, I occasionally notice a "this program is recording your screen notification" in the status bar. I actually gave up on Chrome because of this issue, but reinstalled it after noticing some of the other browsers lacking some of Chrome's unique features
- nomilk 3y ago
  > it usually helps to navigate away and click on an empty desktop, then come back Solved for me! Thanks! (my previous solution was to force quit chrome, which stopped everything I was doing in its tracks).
swah 3y ago
Related, I'm having this "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED" 10% of the time (https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7442 https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7442) and I don't even use a VPN. Browsing just became enfuriating...
Zelphyr 3y ago
I've seen this on multiple Chrome-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Chrome) and it happens so much I've switch from Brave to Safari as my regular browser.

18 points by nomilk 3y ago

solardev 3y ago

Do you have some bad extensions, maybe? It hasn't crashed on me in a long, long time. I can remember it crashing maybe like 2 or 3 times in the last five years, across several different Macs, both work and personal, Intel and Apple Silicon. Some external device (special webcam? mic? bluetooth?) that maybe doesn't play well with the browser access requests? Maybe you can dig through the crash logs... https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en

nomilk 3y ago
The fresh install had zero extensions. An no unusual bluetooth or other devices. The crashes happen with and without external monitor so not sure it's that. Thanks for the crash logs link, wasn't aware of those but will check next time it happens.
- solardev 3y ago
  FYI you might have to turn it on beforehand, and it might send logs to Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96817?sjid=5368379926751263010-NC#zippy=%2Ccomputer https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96817?sjid=53683799...

schappim 3y ago

Chrome is not having a great time on Sonoma: https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1726248785683321050 https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1726248785683321050

swah 3y ago
Some users say that its gone after reinstalling the OS, but I have zero energy to do that... :)
- nomilk 3y ago
  Just happened to me on Sonoma 14.1.1 (23B81), which was the latest available as of 2 days ago, but I notice another update (Sonoma 14.1.2) is now available. EDIT: just updated to 14.1.2 (23B92). Hopefully it stops happening. Will report back if it happens again.

bobberkarl 3y ago

I have the same issue on Edge, Edge Beta and Edge Dev. I thought that was a MsEdge issue. Happy to learn it's a chromium one.

dear-leader 3y ago

This has been happening to me as well for the last few weeks. I’d say since around the time Sonoma was released, although I’ve continued running Ventura the entire time. There was an update to Ventura at the time Sonoma was released, which I’ve considered as a possible cause. I experience the same spinning wheel that rarely if ever resolves on its own, but I’ve noticed that if I click outside of the Chrome window to change focus to another app, and then immediately click back into a Chrome window, the spinning wheel is immediately resolved.

meitros 3y ago

Do you have a lot of tabs open? The one time I ran into something similar was out of memory issues

nomilk 3y ago
I do have quite a few open, perhaps a few dozen but not more than 50-60. It’s on a MacBook Pro with 96GB memory so I don’t think memory should be a problem, although I might check periodically to see if I can spot anything unusual.

charlesabarnes 3y ago

I've been hunting for a solution for this for weeks. The Chrome team said they fixed it and locked their support thread frustratingly. It seems to occur most often when I am switching from one app to Chrome with Chrome in full screen mode. I do not have the issue if I use Chrome in a window. When the pinwheel does come up, it usually helps to navigate away and click on an empty desktop, then come back. Interestingly enough when I do that, I occasionally notice a "this program is recording your screen notification" in the status bar. I actually gave up on Chrome because of this issue, but reinstalled it after noticing some of the other browsers lacking some of Chrome's unique features

nomilk 3y ago
> it usually helps to navigate away and click on an empty desktop, then come back Solved for me! Thanks! (my previous solution was to force quit chrome, which stopped everything I was doing in its tracks).

swah 3y ago

Related, I'm having this "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED" 10% of the time (https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7442 https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7442) and I don't even use a VPN. Browsing just became enfuriating...

Zelphyr 3y ago

I've seen this on multiple Chrome-based browsers (Edge, Brave, Chrome) and it happens so much I've switch from Brave to Safari as my regular browser.