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  • Hi,

    I’ve noticed that for the last several months Chrome randomly crashes when browsing any WP admin area on my Mac. It happens mostly when viewing the pages or post overview page. It shows the first items, then keeps loading the page and eventually crashes.

    It doesn’t matter if it’s a fresh install without any plugins activated or a live production site. It also happens on different hosting providers.

    It’s quite annoying and only happens with Chrome on Mac/OSX. I’ve never had any of these issues with Firefox or Safari.

    Is there anyone else who recognizes this and knows a fix to prevent Chrome from crashing?

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  • Hi,

    I wouldn’t of thought this was a WordPress issue, rather a Mac/Chrome one.

    Ensure that you are using the most recent version of Chrome, your mac is up to date and that you have no other hardware configuration issues.

    Kind regards
    Jamie

    Thread Starter Niels Pilon

    (@nielspilon)

    Hi Jamie,

    Yeah, I’m 99,99% sure that this isn’t a WordPress issue either but posted it here because it only happens with WordPress and no other websites. There’s an old support thread at the Chrome Dev center but that’s only people suffering the same issues but there’s no solution given.

    Given the popularity of WordPress and the size of the support forums I thought that I could give it a try to ask it here. I’m sure that I’m not the only one with this issue knowing the Chrome is so populair right now.

    My Mac and Chrome is up to date and there are no know hardware configuration issues. It happens both on my iMac and MacBook Pro.

    Hi NielsPilon,

    We had the same issue in the office so we just deleted all the cache and history from the computers. There was one that it didn’t work on so we went “Incognito” on that one (cmd + shift + n) so it might be more of caching issue rather than WordPress.

    Andy

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