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spooky name Original Poster

10/27/20

Chrome freezes when tabbed out for extended time, and whent abbing back in crashes my pc

I use multiple chrome windows for projects, online schooling, music etc. usually this results in me having one or more windows minimized to the task bar at a time. However, sometimes when i leave a tab minimized for an extended time, and re-open it, the window shows completely white, and all other chrome windows freeze immediately. after checking task manager, chrome ends up using upwards of 80-90% cpu usage, and sometimes freezes my entire pc to the point where I need to hold the power button to shut it down and recover.

Ive tried both reinstalling chrome AND windows, neither worked

I know I have enough cpu power to multitask chrome, im running a ryzen 5 3600 with 16gb ddr4-3200 ram

any help is appreciated

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Dino Bytes · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-05T15:27:10.898816+00:00

I'm not sure if this is the same issue you're experiencing but there seems to be an issue as of late where after Alt+Tabbing out of Chrome to another full-size window and tabbing back, the tabs would freeze until you manually switch tabs. The solution for that is to go to chrome://flags and disable "Calculate window occlusion on Windows" and restart Chrome with the button that appears on the bottom of your screen after applying the new setting.