Post by msdemos on Feb 7, 2023 22:01:01 GMT
I'll throw this out there on the odd chance anybody else may have run into a similar situation, and could benefit with this (relatively) simple Chrome Hardware Acceleration setting change.
Recently I've been running into this situation a number of times while online on my desktop, and usually when I've been scrolling down through a lengthy webpage (most often on YouTube, sometimes with Gmail, and other times while randomly scrolling down through various other webpages), where the page would suddenly lock up, and then after about 30 seconds or so, I'd get the "Page Unresponsive - Wait or Exit Page" popup, like this:
While trying a few different things to see if I could get this randomly intermittent problem to stop cropping up, I found out that by simply switching OFF Chrome's "Hardware Acceleration" setting, this problem suddenly stopped happening, and I haven't had it happen again in the couple of weeks since I switched this setting off:
To Turn Chrome's Hardware Acceleration Off:
-Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right-hand corner of any open Chrome webpage
-Click on Settings
-Click on System (with the little 'wrench' symbol next to it)
-Swipe the slider for Use hardware acceleration when available to the OFF Position (to the left)
-Close Settings page
Method 2 on this page:
thegeekpage.com/google-chrome-page-unresponsive/
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