With the latest release of Chrome, my computer has become incredibly unstable, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.

It’s like Missingno all over again!

The thing is, I recently upgraded my computer to a better one, and upgraded my ram. Now there was some ram I added in the past which was faulty, so a new batch came not too long ago, and initially, I thought the cause of these freezings was because of the ram.

But it’s not. It’s the stupid Chrome browser.

Here’s what happens – when I load up many tabs, and then change in between tabs, I get a full-system lock up, the graphics on-screen goes whacky, everything freezes. This isn’t the only instance it’s happened, but it’s the one where I can repeatedly replicate. I switched to 3 different ram sticks and the results were repeatable.

There are one of two things I can narrow it down to. Firstly, it could be because many pages are open, but secondly it can be due to rendering HTML5 pages (which I had open at the time).

It must be because they changed the Chrome logo!

Edit: Turns out it wasn’t just Chrome. Happens on Safari as well, and is most definitely related to rendering html5 sites.

Specifications
13″ Macbook Pro 2011
OS X Leopard 10.6.7
Chrome Version 11.0.696.65