The Lamonster
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YouTube just crashed Chrome for me as well.
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They changed the sizes of the "large" viewer. It's now actually 720. Amazing because it still fits completely on my screen once I scroll down past the header.I'm on the HTML5 test so I'm not affected.
Although the player has grown in size for some reason...
Also, I don't get why YouTube is unsure whether to use the Flash player or HTML5 player for me. It's like it randomly picks one or the other for each video because some of them show up as HTML5 which bugs the shit out of me in Fullscreen Chrome because "ESCAPE" to exit out of Fullscreen is the same key OS X uses to exit out of fullscreen in the app so I end up exiting out of both fullscreen video and fullscreen Chrome and have to go back into Chrome fullscreen... Wish I could disable Escape as the "exit fullscreen Lion mode" key.
Anyway, any ideas? Maybe it has to do with what codec the video uses? And older videos don't have a H.264 version? That's what I am guessing.
Jzero
Member
I've had no problems at all since i downgraded to the stable build.
Happened to me too all day yesterday. Whenever I X'd out it would crash.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Thanks for the link, will try the fix later. Had Chrome crash for me several times on youtube yesterday.
Which is fantastic. The big size here is easily the best and I hated youtube ever since they removed cosmic panda because they took away the big size. Finally back.
Which is fantastic. The big size here is easily the best and I hated youtube ever since they removed cosmic panda because they took away the big size. Finally back.
Metalmurphy
Member
Which one are you using and how do you downgrade? My chrome keeps crashing on youtube as well.
Jzero
Member
i'm on the stable build 16.0.912.77 m
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
So I finally got that dreaded Chrome OS bug. My touch pad won't let me scroll anymore. I can still use it to move the cursor and click and such. I can't two finger scroll anymore though. 
Metalmurphy
Member
Well... that's the one I have :/ Youtube still crashing like mad.
Treefingers
Member
Yeah.. this is getting quite annoying.
Jzero
Member
that's weird, it hasn't crashed for me at all.
This was happening to me too. I thought there was a problem with updating.
It only happens sometimes but becoming more frequent.
I don't think its the same problem because I don't get a pop-up window saying anything crashed. But for the last couple weeks certain pages load then turn to just a black screen, YouTube does it occasionally but the video keeps playing I just can not see anything. maps.google.com does it instantly almost, there are some other pages but I can't quite remember what they are.
Anyone know what the issue might be?
Anyone know what the issue might be?
Might want to check here.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=1627b9d058e9203b&hl=en
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Count me in as one of the people having crashes. Oddly my Chromebook doesn't crash since it's on a different branch. Makes me think it's a bug in the stable, and they need to push out a fix ASAP.
ThatObviousUser
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Lol I watched the new Sequelitis and since it had ads I got the Flash version. Went to close the tab, and... yup. Crash. Pretty strange.
Everyone else I would suggest switching to the HTML5 test for now, it's actually not as horrible as it used to be and in fact is very close to the "real version." Annotations, captions, etc. all work. www.youtube.com/html5
Everyone else I would suggest switching to the HTML5 test for now, it's actually not as horrible as it used to be and in fact is very close to the "real version." Annotations, captions, etc. all work. www.youtube.com/html5
No more hiccups, thanks!
Yeah, it is pretty nice and seamless except for that really stupid Lion conflict I mentioned. But other than that, it's nice that I can't even tell the difference most of the time.
Jzero
Member
Awesome. The last time i used it it was buggy as shit.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I figured this crashing problem wasn't just me.
You should make a port of this safari extension: http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
He provides the source too. Basically replaces plug-ins with html5 equivalents. It uses the native browser html5 media controls, which I prefer to Youtube's crap.
Didn't have to watch any ads and got straight through to the 720P MP4:
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
I'm finding Chrome crashes if I leave Facebook open as well. The site looks different today too.
After doing a fresh install of Windows, I decided to switch over to Chrome. Loving the simplicity of it, so far.
Does anyone have any suggestions on tweaks? I did a small one with the address bar, by having it redirect to a specific page rather than to Google by typing in keywords, like Firefox (ie: "Chrome wikipedia" brings me to the Wikipedia article on Chrome).
Second, is there a way to make the scroll wheel act like it does with Firefox? When I click on my scroll wheel, it acts like a click and drag, rather than moving the mouse down and the page just scrolls until I stop.
Does anyone have any suggestions on tweaks? I did a small one with the address bar, by having it redirect to a specific page rather than to Google by typing in keywords, like Firefox (ie: "Chrome wikipedia" brings me to the Wikipedia article on Chrome).
Second, is there a way to make the scroll wheel act like it does with Firefox? When I click on my scroll wheel, it acts like a click and drag, rather than moving the mouse down and the page just scrolls until I stop.
In Chrome it works the way you described for me. Click wheel, page scrolls up/down until I re-click the wheel.
Options > Basics > Manage Search Engines
you can set keywords for search engines
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95653
I haven't had a crash since I updated to the Chrome Beta, it might help some of you guys too...
Jzero
Member
What DNS server are you using?
My DSL one, verizon.
Jzero
Member
Try changing it to Google Public DNS
it's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
i have both of them installed since ABP doesn't seem to be working at the moment
Kibbles
Member
Youtube keeps crashing Chrome. WTF, if anything I would think Chrome would be the best browser with youtube considering youtube is owned by google. Glad to see it's not a problem on my end though as everyone else seems to be having it. Fix your shit google.
I'll try out that beta link posted above...
I'll try out that beta link posted above...
I tried every suggestion online and in here. Sadly I still suffer. It only crashes when im on youtube and when i exit out the tab while its there. Now i have to leave the page before I can close the tab...really annoying. I hope there's a fix soon. I might try the beta as stated above but I don't know if the beta is better or worse the regular chrome. Plus I dont wan't to re enter passwords and ect for switching :/
Orbis Tabula
Member
I've gotten a lot of that, too. Fortunately, everytime I start to have problems, I notice there's an update waiting that usually fixes it. Probably just slow to update since I never close my browser.
I gave this a try, I will see if it makes a difference. thanks.
EDIT: It seems to have fixed the problem, thanks jzero. Chrome still freezes when I'm trying to load a new page, but at least i'm not getting that DNS error page.
ABP barely works in Chrome, Adblock is the better one.
added_time
Member
That isn't true. The Adblock experimental build is amazing. Blocks every single ad for me.
GhostRidah
Member
Anyone know of a good youtube auto high quality selector extension? Last one I used stop working for awhile now and I cant find a good one.
Isn't that what he just said?
06nbarnhill
Member
Came to this thread to complain about this. The youtube thing is driving me nuts......probably crashed 6 times a day....has gotten to the point that I won't even use youtube because of the hassle. Just switched to chrome last month from firefox and get this welcome. Even more pathetic considering youtube is a google website. Combine that with my frustration with firefox (lots of lag and slowness in general) and I may hafta go IE.....who woulda thought.
They sure know how to lose marketshare.
Nabs
Member
I like Youtube Options.
Insane Metal
Member
It crashes for me too, after a video ends or when I try to close the youtube tab. :/
06nbarnhill
Member
Been going on for a while now. It really is kind of pathetic.
Really lowers my opinion of Google's programmers that this type of problem still hasn't been fixed. I mean its their browser and their website. I don't see how it could be that hard.
Have they put out a statement of any kind?