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After years of the highest satisfaction with Chrome on Windows, lately I've been experiencing many annoying crashes. This is also true for some people I know.

After years of the highest satisfaction with Chrome on Windows, lately I've been experiencing many annoying crashes. This is also true for some people I know. For myself, it might depend on the fact that I'm using more extensions now, but that isn't true, for example, for my father. I don't want to imply anything, but this reminds me of when I switched from Netscape Navigator to IE back in the day, not because IE was "better" (AFAIR IE was an exact copy of Navigator, just with a big "e" instead of a big "N" in the upper right corner) but because Navigator was becoming more and more unstable.

rm999 14y ago
I've found Chrome (and all browsers in this day and age, for that matter) to be quite stable, and I haven't heard complaints from others. Before switching browsers (which can be pretty inconvenient) it may be worth debugging if this is an issue with your system in general rather than the browser. Have you and your father tried the advice on this page? http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142063 http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
- danmaz74 14y ago
  I didn't; thank you for your suggestion, I'll check those suggestions out the next time I'm on Windows.
Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Periodically clearing the browsing data, AppData and %TEMP folders does the trick for me. In my experience, that's not Chrome specific; all web browsers get bogged down over time. In the same vein, it's good to do a clean install of your OS once a year.
- danmaz74 14y ago
  I stopped periodically reinstalling my OS since windows 2k... and wouldn't like to start again :)
  - Samuel_Michon 14y ago
    That's your pejorative, but to objectively compare the speed and stability of browsers or OSes, you need to use clean installs. Software gets slower over time, because of all the cruft that accumulates.
    - Samuel_Michon 14y ago
      By 'pejorative', I meant 'prerogative'. Silly auto correct.

rm999 14y ago

I've found Chrome (and all browsers in this day and age, for that matter) to be quite stable, and I haven't heard complaints from others. Before switching browsers (which can be pretty inconvenient) it may be worth debugging if this is an issue with your system in general rather than the browser. Have you and your father tried the advice on this page? http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=142063 http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

danmaz74 14y ago
I didn't; thank you for your suggestion, I'll check those suggestions out the next time I'm on Windows.

Samuel_Michon 14y ago

Periodically clearing the browsing data, AppData and %TEMP folders does the trick for me. In my experience, that's not Chrome specific; all web browsers get bogged down over time. In the same vein, it's good to do a clean install of your OS once a year.

danmaz74 14y ago
I stopped periodically reinstalling my OS since windows 2k... and wouldn't like to start again :)
- Samuel_Michon 14y ago
  That's your pejorative, but to objectively compare the speed and stability of browsers or OSes, you need to use clean installs. Software gets slower over time, because of all the cruft that accumulates.
  - Samuel_Michon 14y ago
    By 'pejorative', I meant 'prerogative'. Silly auto correct.