Chrome doesn't load pages, unless I kill it's process

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2014-05
  • Pureferret

    I'm experiencing a bug or a problem when I use chrome version 25.0.1364.97 m in Windows 7, both of which are up to date (according to my About Chrome page/Windows Update program).

    The symptoms are that, after a few minutes of browsing new pages don't load. Pages I'm currently on still seem to function properly, so for instance I can watch videos on youtube from a playlist, and I can still use chat if I have that page loaded, for instance. Closing and reopening chrome doesn't do anything, and it seems as though I need to kill the process from the task manager. Closing individual processes (i.e. the ones that chrome has started for it's tabs) doesn't help, and I have to kill the Process Tree of whichever process is the original one for the browser (I presume).

    On reloading Chrome, it tried to restore my tabs, but it isn't able to restore the latest ones (it restores whatever was open, I presume, from before the loading issue started that session).

    I don't experience this issue in Linux (or if I have I've not noticed it!).

    How can I fix this/work around it?

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  • Austin ''Danger'' Powers

    I've heard of that before.

    Uninstall Chrome, then reinstall it.


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  • cmnajs

    I want to close one tab of chrome. I tried killing the pid of the tab, but the tab doesn't close instead says "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, reload or go to another page". How can I get rid of this.


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  • Darth Android

    You can't close a tab by killing the process. The process represents a renderer that the main browser uses the execute and draw a page, which it then copies to the screen. The "Aw, Snap!" is what the browser displays when the renderer responsible for that tab crashes or is killed. The proper way to close the tab would ideally be via a command-line switch, but there is none that I know of at this time.

  • Diogo

    It is possible to kill an unresponsive tab (or set of tabs) in Chrome by going to:

    1. Wrench;
    2. Tools;
    3. Task Manager and clicking on the tab name;
    4. Then clicking the "End Process" button at the bottom.