[PLUG] Chrome freeze

[Daniel Hedlund]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> Occasionally Chrome freezes.  Usually I have a few tabs open.  The symptoms
> are that clicking to change tabs, to close a tab, or to pan within a tab
> causes not response--no change visible.  The fix I have found is to go to
> the context menu and choose inspect element.  That immediately seems to
> clear the freeze, and the click which initiated the freeze becomes active.
>

Do you have any extensions installed?  There are reports that some
extensions (i.e. "Tabs Preview") are known to cause similar behaviour:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/OVXRMZYWSiE/U1vy2eJ20VUJ

There are also recent reports that a GPU VSync flag and/or thread
compositing are known to freeze up parts of the browser:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303293
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/cMidVX4EYe8

Have you confirmed that the issue is chrome specific and not related to X
or your window manager?  Can you minimize the chrome window by
left-clicking (if your window manager supports it)?  If you have another
window open, can you switch to that window or perform actions by
left-clicking?  If you switch to another window with a keyboard and then
back, does left-clicking work again?