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    What's wrong with the latest Chrome browser?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kentl901, Jun 30, 2012.

  1. kentl901

    kentl901 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all,

    I'm aware that Google is having some issue with their Chrome browser and some of the MBAs.

    Anyway, I'm using an iMac and Macbook with SL and its performance has never been this bad. Load time has been super slow. For instance, when I try to go to google.com, or any site for that matter, it'll lag for 2 seconds after hitting enter, then flash about:blank on the address bar with a white screen, and then load up the webpage.

    It has not done this before.

    Anyone having similar problems?


    BTW, tried clearing cache and all that stuff, no dice.
     
  2. kornchild2002

    kornchild2002 Notebook Deity

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    I'm having somewhat similar problems. My main issue with not using Chrome is its inability to work with all of the OS X Lion gestures in the same way as Safari. I think that was supposed to be fixed with the latest version of Chrome but, whenever I zoom in, it just makes the text larger as before. Maybe theres a setting I'm missing, I don't know.

    I also had issues with webpages loading sporadically in that it would load, the windows within Chrome displaying the website would turn white, it would come back, it would turn white, and it would finally load. I ended up uninstalling the latest version and went back to an older release I was using (which I really only use to download certain content as its plug-in is much better than the one available for Safari).
     
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    xfiregrunt Notebook Evangelist

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    For some reason I've noticed some sites do not support Chrome on OSX, and I'm not entirely sure why.