Google Chrome´s rendering area is constantly freezing in my computer. Not the whole software, only it´s rendering area. Clicks are still working, mouse pointer still changes when hovering some link. Even if I click on a link it seems that it is loaded, the url changes and etc.
There are some sites that are suspect of having content that causes this behaviour. Coincidently (or not) they are javascript loaded sites:
- Gmail
- Google Docs
What I have already tried:
- Disable all plugins
- Reinstall Google Chrome
What makes it unfreeze:
- Resize the entire window. It seems to me that for some reason Chrome stops refreshing until a resize happens.
- Killing GPU process unfreezes all tabs.
- In a new tab load one of the suspect sites
Relevant versions
- Chrome Version
24.0.1312.52 m(but it was happening before update) - Windows 7
My questions
- Any idea on what could cause this?
- Is there any debugging level log that I could enable (GPU process only would be perfect) so I can see what has happened just before the freezing?
Best Answer
It is a bug of GPU acceleration. You can disable it in chrome command line. Add these parameters in chrome command line. --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer