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Ask HN: Has Hacker News been unusable on Chrome for anyone else?

3 points by sss111 1y ago

I'm running into a frustrating issue where Google Chrome slows down or goes into a loading state while reading big threads on hackernews. (For example this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 or this post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982 ) All I have to do is start clicking the minimize button on threads and my entire PC stops responding. I have a really beefy setup so its most likely not from there Has anyone else run into this? So far been able to replicate on: - Windows 11, Chrome v140.0.7339.208 Also tried incognito mode in Chrome, disabled all extensions. Interestingly, doesn't happen on macOS.

DemocracyFTW2 1y ago
Works for me (using Vivaldi on Linux Mint)
- sss111 1y ago
  yeah Firefox or Vivaldi don't have this issue!
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FergusArgyll 1y ago
Works fine for me Win 11 Chrome 140.0.7339.208 8 gb ram i5
- sss111 1y ago
  Oh wow. I'm on 64GB, Ryzen 5.
  - FergusArgyll 1y ago
    Intel for the w :) /s On a more serious note; chatgpt thinks that it may be caused by GPU driver issues - which would explain why your setup is having a harder time (my gpu is intel standard whatever...) so it suggests turning off hardware acceleration. It links to these 2 https://www.elevenforum.com/t/edge-and-chrome-freezes-after-24h2-update.32199/ https://www.elevenforum.com/t/edge-and-chrome-freezes-after-... https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1kgxdno/psa_windows_11_24h2_microsoft_issue_causing/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1kgxdno/psa_windows... I have no way to test this, so do what you want with it. Chatgpt link https://chatgpt.com/share/68e2c648-c5c0-8003-bcc9-49785c0131be https://chatgpt.com/share/68e2c648-c5c0-8003-bcc9-49785c0131...
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