Periodic system freezes by Chrome

[cameo]

I've noticed lately that accessing certain web pages with Chrome the
system freezes for 20-30 seconds while it waits for a server response.
I could understand if only the browser would not respond during that
time, but this thing prevents me to do anything anywhere on the PC as
both the mouse and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Has anybody else
experienced this behavior recently with Chrome?

 

[Tom Hall]

I've noticed lately that accessing certain web pages with Chrome the
system freezes for 20-30 seconds while it waits for a server response.
I could understand if only the browser would not respond during that
time, but this thing prevents me to do anything anywhere on the PC as
both the mouse and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Has anybody else
experienced this behavior recently with Chrome?

Look at the bottom left of your status bar and see if you see a message
that says "downloading proxy script". If so, that's the problem. No clue as
to how to fix it.

Tom

 

[Ed Cryer]

I've noticed lately that accessing certain web pages with Chrome the
system freezes for 20-30 seconds while it waits for a server response.
I could understand if only the browser would not respond during that
time, but this thing prevents me to do anything anywhere on the PC as
both the mouse and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Has anybody else
experienced this behavior recently with Chrome?

If you don't use a proxy server try this;
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/106010?hl=en

Ed

 

[cameo]

If you don't use a proxy server try this;
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/106010?hl=en

Ed

Thanks for the tip. I unmarked the automatic detect check box as the
article suggested. I'll see if that will help.

 

[cameo]

Look at the bottom left of your status bar and see if you see a message
that says "downloading proxy script". If so, that's the problem. No clue as
to how to fix it.

Usually what I see on the left side of the status bar is that it is
trying to connect to some adware during the freeze.

 

[Paul]

I've noticed lately that accessing certain web pages with Chrome the
system freezes for 20-30 seconds while it waits for a server response.
I could understand if only the browser would not respond during that
time, but this thing prevents me to do anything anywhere on the PC as
both the mouse and the keyboard becomes unresponsive. Has anybody else
experienced this behavior recently with Chrome?

Chrome seems to be especially good at finding
holes in the OS armor. When Google does naughty
things, they then have the nerve to blame the OS
for letting them do it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/06/29...g-freezing-and-crashing-on-new-mac-notebooks/

I guess that makes Chrome an "OS test tool", an "abuser
of APIs". Neat. The other browsers, would only try and use
up all your memory (memory leak). Chrome really is better.

Paul

 

[cameo]

Thanks for the tip. I unmarked the automatic detect check box as the
article suggested. I'll see if that will help.

Well, I tried it, but still freezes periodically.

 

[Ed Cryer]

Usually what I see on the left side of the status bar is that it is
trying to connect to some adware during the freeze.

This looks suspicious. Write down the web address that appears there,
let us know and we'll investigate the site.

Ed