Two Newest Releases Of Google Chrome Broken?

January 26, 2016 | moi

[kiryandil]

I think that the two newest releases of Google Chrome are broken.

Version 47.0.2526.111 m
Version 48.0.2564.82 m

I get the spinning blue circle for NO reason at all occasionally.

All other applications function normally. RAM usage for Chrome appears to be normal.

There's rumblings on Chrome forums, but I don't see a definitive in-your-face "It's Broken!" yet.

[kiryandil]

To solve the problem, I get up and walk away for 5 minutes.

Maybe it's a New Year's exercise thingee...

[kiryandil]

ping

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

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Version 47.0.2526.106 (64-bit)

Works fine.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Sorry I see you said 111 - feel free to ignore my comment ...

[Fhios]

I have the hardest time with a few of the well known conservative web sites. With my add blocker up all s fine. With my ad blocker suspended these web sites just assault my browser and end up leaving a dozen or so zombie chrome processes that eventually eat up the memory and cpu time slowing my computer to a crawl.

My computer is built from new off the shelf components, dual SSD drives, 16G memory and an A10 8 core AMD processor, 65Mbits/s internet.

[kiryandil]

Two awesome Chrome tools:

> chrome://discards/

> Shift-Esc gets you the Google Chrome Task Manager which shows ONLY Google Chrome processes

[kiryandil]

Chrome discards allows you to “discard” a tab, freeing up any RAM that it’s using. It still remains as a tab on your browser that can be clicked, and reactivated.