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Google Chrome and the Blue Screen of Death - BSOD

Filed Under Browsers, Google Chrome 

After a couple of days of heavy use of Google Chrome, the annoyances have started.

Having a link in the page’s HTML source ending with a special character causes the while browser to crash. So much for only the tab crashing.

The bigger and more annoying issue is the fact that I have received the blue screen of death (BSOD) on 3 ocassions. The message seemed like there was an IRQ conflict. Something to do with IRQL not equal. The only thing common to all 3 occurances is that I was using IE and Chrome simultaneously. And both had some sort of media being played - either YouTube videos or forced video ads. At least on one ocassipn I was listening to Pandora.

I also noticed that Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer has become slow and sluggish after installing Chrome. Go figure.

This is the first post from my mobile phone.

Comments

7 Responses to “Google Chrome and the Blue Screen of Death - BSOD”

  1. Zark on September 16th, 2008 11:30 pm

    I’ve been getting blue screen errors too. Chrome is overrated.

  2. me on September 26th, 2008 10:19 pm

    Since installing Chrome I have now encountered 3 BSODs on my Vista Notebook. Never happened previously and since uninstalling it has never happened again. At the time of the BSOD I had a page open streaming with real-player. Curiously I have been running Chrome( and still am ) on my Vista desktop without problems…

  3. Aditya on September 27th, 2008 12:43 pm

    The same with me. No BSODs on my desktops. Is it a laptop thing?

  4. Smaktakular on October 3rd, 2008 8:04 pm

    My xp notebook has run flawlessly for almost 2 years. Installed Chrome and had a BSOD within the hour. It’s been about three weeks now, have yet to run Chrome again, no BSOD.

    I think it’s Chrome.

    Bad Bad Bad Google

    Fix it please I do wanna use it.

  5. Anonymous on October 16th, 2008 10:36 am

    The BSOD error “Driver IRQL not less than or equal” implies a driver error. Judging from the context (IE and Chrome streaming multimedia) it could be any number of drivers (network, sound, video). Update all of them and see if the BSoD stops appearing.

  6. noname on October 28th, 2008 4:30 pm

    The same here - since I am not using Chrome anymore, no more blue screens. Befor, Chrome crashed my notebook - a IBM A31p - several times after some time of browsing. No IE was open in parallel, though sometimes Firfox 3.
    I am back to FF now …

    I was happy with Chrome with it’s quick start-up time! But BSOD’s … No thanks

  7. sk on November 19th, 2008 9:26 pm

    First blue screen of death in 4 years. Thanks for nothing Chrome.

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