I was interested to find out what kind of tool Google was announcing today so I took a peek and discovered that Google came up with a new browser. They have an interesting take on the browser with the multi-process model so I decided to give it a try. The installation was painless and I was able to get things running almost right away. I am quite surprised that Google chose to use Webkit which Safari currently uses. Even though it is faster than Firefox, I find that it’s less compatible with web sites than Firefox. Of course IE is still the king right now since there are still many websites that only works with IE exclusively.
Anyways, as I was tinkering around with Chrome, I opened a PDF file within Chrome and then it brought my Vista to its knees. The process was spinning so obviously I had to kill the process. To my surprise, my Vista actually blue screened and there it was my first blue screen experience with Vista.
I am also using Chrome to write this blog and with my Eee PC. The chrome process keeps on busying out for no reason; I am not running any other applications but my entire system is unresponsive while stuck waiting for the disk. So far I am defintely not impressed but hey this is only the first day of release; the app does look really good and it load pages as fast as Safari. Let’s see if they can continue to improve the web experience down to the browser.
September 3, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I got a blue screen of death too last night while trying it on Vista… My first BSOD on Vista too.
September 3, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Same here, I had a bluescreen on Windows XP, after using Google Chrome for 5 minutes. First bluescreen on this notebook…
September 15, 2008 at 3:10 am
I’ve likewise experienced BSODs. Once on the 3rd, which was a day after I installed Chrome. I stopped for about a week, and started using it again full time this weekend, and I got two BSODs today, about 4 hours apart. I’m scared using it now… Not 100% it’s Chrome’s fault but it’s a common denominator.. My laptop’s a Sony Vaio SZ120P running XPSP3.
September 27, 2008 at 5:13 am
Now I have encountered 2 BSODs on my Vista Notebook. Never happened on my notebook before and since uninstalling has never happened again. Curiously I have also been ( and still am ) running Chrome on my Vista desktop without problems…
September 29, 2008 at 3:38 am
same here, i’ve installed gchrome a week ago and it went well, fast and secure.. but suddently turned my pc into a blue screen.
mine is running on windows XP.
October 4, 2008 at 3:01 am
Hey hey!
I’m glad to find this thread because I too loaded it on my XP notebook and within the hour BAM BSOD!!! I’ve never had one and I stopped using Chrome immediately and have not had one since.
I’m uninstalling it till they confirm it’s been fixed.
November 10, 2008 at 11:50 am
Got the BSOD multiple times on XP (IBM T43).. this happened only after updating to the latest version of chrome (0.3.154.9).. I have a set of bookmarks (10 of them) and I open the same every day to check on various websites. I think one of the websites is causing chrome to misbehave to a BSOD..
January 16, 2009 at 3:05 pm
My Thinkpad which is running XP began blue-screening after I installed Chrome 6 weeks ago. The error code pointed to an outdated BIOS version and an outdated version of IBM’s Rescue and Recovery program. But after upgrading both the blue-screening persisted.
Last week I uninstalled Chrome and voila! No more blue-screening.
February 20, 2009 at 1:19 am
i used to get tons and tons of BSOD’s with google chrome.
i never went back to it.
i have xp sp3 btw.
it seems its memory related, the way chrome uses the computer’s memory is flawed
March 29, 2009 at 5:49 am
Are folks still having BSOD’s with current chrome?
If so, google would love to hear from you,
and get a copy of a minidump so we can figure out
what caused it. Send Google the minidump via
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/request.py?contact_type=bluescreen
Thanks!
(Disclaimer: I’m a google chrome engineer.)
May 2, 2009 at 4:29 pm
He folks. Just thought I’d chime in with an opinion.
I just got a brand new Dell XPS desktop, and after about a month I started getting BSOD. After many many frustrating hours talking to Dell support I finally got them to agree to replace my motherboard AND soundcard.. but guess what.. still getting BSOD! Then I realized it always seems to happen when I’m using Chrome and never anything else. I submitted my crash report to the link posted by Dan (thanks Dan). Seems to happen when I type something into the search/address bar and hit Enter (right when I hit Enter usually)
FYI: My BSOD displays the ubiquitous and completely unhelpful IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message
May 8, 2009 at 7:34 am
I get the BSOD atleast twice a day, and it happens when I exit off Chrome. I click the ‘X’ and bam, BSOD!
May 21, 2009 at 5:29 am
I started to have 4 to 6 blue screen of death since using Chrome. Never i had this on my brand new vista laptop. It started since I used Chrome.
Message is always the same:
IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL message
i thought it was antivirus, and made millons of changes. Now it seems this is caused by Chrome.
Today I had 5 BSOD. I thought it was my ram until i found this blog since i started to suspect it was chrome.
May 25, 2009 at 3:49 am
From my job, I have an IBM thinkpad (running Windows xp sp3) which I have been using for years and have never seen the BSOD until installing Google Chrome last week. I was getting the BSOD several times a day, so I uninstalled it a couple of days ago and have not seen the blue screen since. I do not have administrative rights on this computer, but was able to install and unstall Google Chrome as a normal user? I wondered if that had something to do with the problem. How do I find the minidump to send to google?
May 25, 2009 at 3:52 pm
The minidump is in C:\Windows\Minidump, I think.
See
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=132339
All you folks with blue screens, what graphics
card and drivers are you using?
May 25, 2009 at 8:49 pm
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
NVIDIA Driver v7.15.11.8250 (date: 27/03/2009)
Vista Ultimate 64bit
October 9, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I got a bsod too while installing chrome on my winxp machine!
October 25, 2009 at 3:28 pm
well i guess thats my problem because every time i use google chrome in like 20 minutes i get the dreaded BSOD but i just uninstalled it so if it doesnt happen again i will leave a comment
July 18, 2010 at 8:42 am
I’m gettin the infamous BSOD everytime I try to use Chrome on my Toshiba (Vista Pro)… I gave up…. I’v just removed Chrome (which is a pity cause I like it)…
August 3, 2010 at 6:57 pm
same for me…
Running Google chrome on xp…
and got 2 BSODs in 1/2h, tonight…
Same thing on my laptop 3 or 4 times during last month.
I like(d) a lot G chrome, but using IE8 now :/
(sry 4 my english)
September 8, 2010 at 7:02 am
I initially encountered BSODs with Chrome.. and then it stopped. Again, with the release of v6, it started. It always happens when playing a flash-based video.
This seems like a widespread problem. Check out http://www.techielife.com/google-chrome-and-the-blue-screen-of-death/ and the comments posted. Some Chromium developers posted comments there.
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