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Google Chrome is Freezing Intermittently With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Users Say (neowin.net)
Several users who have updated their computers to Windows 10 April 2018 Update are reporting that Chrome is freezing their machines. From a report: I have now used the April 2018 Update for nearly 24 hours and the same problem has presented itself no less than five times. For a machine - which was working perfectly prior to the update - with a Core i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD, I naturally resorted to Reddit and Microsoft forum threads to see if others were experiencing the issue. It appears that several users on Reddit (spotted by Softpedia) with machines sporting varying configurations are experiencing the problem as well, and the only fix to it is the one I found too; that is, putting the laptop to sleep using the power button or closing the lid.
I switched away from Firefox recently for various reasons and Chrome has been a sore disappointment. Tabs crash constantly, GIFS stop working (shows first frame then goes black), the addon ecosystem is worse than Firefox - there's more of them, just poorly made and option poor.
There's not a single browser on the market today that I would actively recommend. Just an array of mediocrity.
This would be the first time a microsoft update has caused problems for a rival's products or programs.
Because this would be the first ever recorded such instances I deem it to be highly unlikely.
...so nothing to see here.
This is why enterprises and power users are staying with LTSB, Windows 7 and even XP. We don't want sudden updates breaking our stuff. Microsoft needs to learn to slow down and do proper tetsing instead of this Windows as a service fad.
And I checked the resource usage, one tab was using 2 gigs of RAM for some reason! ACK!
So you're saying you’re not seeing anything out of the ordinary?
#DeleteChrome
I install the new update yesterday, make the mandatory 5 reboots. This morning, the window's login screen was freezing for a good 5 minutes...
Then when I finally get there, windows ask me to change my login credential... and freeze... then updating language module and freeze.. adding I don't know how many new keyboard in the keyboard bar....
When, we compare this to mature OS like Ubuntu or Mint... Windows take like 3 hours to update on my i5 12g ram 10krpm computer after the download... without counting the reboots... Ubuntu ou Mint can date like 15 minutes on the same hardware..
Windows is not ready for business ... ;-)
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
People let their browser open longer and longer on the same page, opening more pages...
And many web sites (Facebook to begin with) allocate objects, create circular references and don't break the reference cycle because "dropping" the object, leading to a cycle of objects (elements, functions and closures) which can't be freed by the garbage collect.
Don't blame the browser, blame the web sites creator who don't care about cleaning their junk.
Wait, sounds familiar somehow...
Function A creates an element B and associate a function C to the "onclick" property of B before linking B to the DOM tree
C being created inside A, it inherits the closure of A in which you find a variable pointing to B
We have DOM -> B -> C -> closure -> B cycle created
When B is removed from DOM, the references loop still stays, every object keeps at least one reference to it and can't be freed by the garbage collect.
Propre way to do it is to clear the onclick of B when you remove it from the DOM to break the cycle... but most web sites don't care and this leads to browsers memory usage growing and growing.
Yes, flamebait subject. But hear me out... given the growing interest in data privacy and concern about the mining of our online activities, Chrome's horrendous tendency to take over all your computers' RAM and CPU, the latest Firefox being measurably faster than Chrome, aggressive and intrusive bundling of trojan Chrome installs into unrelated apps, and now Chrome pulling an IE in pushing proprietary markup that encourages the making of websites that ONLY work in Chrome, why are people still giving Google a pass and using an inferior/arrogant browser when there is a better option?
And guess what encourages this antipattern? jQuery. And guess what virtually every website on the Internet uses these days for virtually everything? jQuery.
Not that I'm saying jQuery isn't a godsend, it is, but you really wish the thing had been designed in a way that doesn't encourage closures for everything.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
Fake news! No crashes. Works perfe
Table-ized A.I.
Let me guess... the Edge browser is running faster than ever..?
It ain't done 'til Lotus won't run...
-Myke
RAM is a expense, expenses must be controlled. The more a web browser takes up, the less of the same resource is available for other tasks.
Whe you only have to budget for one PC with 16GB of RAM, it may not seem like a lot. When you have to budget for hundreds or even thousands of PCs, against a Walmart razor thin margin ecosystem, 16GB is an incredible expense. And one can't raise margins to cover the cost of a better rig, because the lowest bidder wins. This trickles down to the employee who can't afford more than $400 per cycle for a PC, and whose 4GB/dual core box isn't past the 8 year cycle yet.
Excessive memory usage by websites and browsers, and excessive bandwidth usage by websites is both greed and gluttony, and is disrespectful to the working class. Its like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, except in this case that pot of gold is affordable computing. By the time we get 10mbps 4G LTE across the country, the web is going to require 100mbps minimum. Afford 16 GB of RAM, and the minimum is now 64GB.