Question Chrome sometimes stops loading lots of pages while other browsers work fine.

[Nachmanowicz]

It happened to me a few times. One time I just reinstalled it and it was working just fine again. But now it has gone crazy once more. I actually installed Opera GX in order to ask this question here, cause using Edge was a bridge too far.


PS: even Google Pages were not loading. Facebook was.

 

[Ralston18]

Chrome (compared to other browsers) may be trying to use more system resources than are available.

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

What do you mean by "lots of pages"? Quantify? Add some explanation.

Look in Reliability History for any error codes, warnings, or even informational events that Windows may have captured just before or at the time the page loading stopped.

Use Task Manager and Resource Monitor to observe the use of system resources. Use both tools but only one tool at a time.

Watch what happens when you steadily open more and more pages while using Chrome versus other browsers.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Chrome (compared to other browsers) may be trying to use more system resources than are available.

Update your post to include full system hardware specs and OS information.

What do you mean by "lots of pages"? Quantify? Add some explanation.

Look in Reliability History for any error codes, warnings, or even informational events that Windows may have captured just before or at the time the page loading stopped.

Use Task Manager and Resource Monitor to observe the use of system resources. Use both tools but only one tool at a time.

Watch what happens when you steadily open more and more pages while using Chrome versus other browsers.

I have a beefy PC, 32 gb of memory. And RAM usage is not nearly depleted. When I say lots of pages I mean specific domains. Some domains will load, others wont. And it is exclusively to Chrome. I could open another browser (and I have), not even closing Chrome, and access all pages, including google, gmail etc while if I try to do so on Chrome it will stay loading forever and not get nowhere.

What you mean by OS information?

but PC Specs are

Ryzen 5700X
Gamdias Chione AIO Water Cooler 240mm
Asus B550M TUF Gaming Plus
32GB DDR4 3600Mhz
RTX 3080TI
Sharkoon 750W Modular PSU
2 nvme 1tb ssds, 1 sata 1tb ssd, 1 2tb HDD

Edit: IMPORTANT. I think I might have broke something or gotten a virus when I was fiddling with drivers in order to get 5. 1 Dolby/DTS audio via optical to my receiver. At some point I broke windows so hard that the entire taskbar died and I had to restore. Hopefully I created a restore point before starting that journey. lol

 

[Ralston18]

OS = Operating system.

Anything in Reliability History or Event Viewer?

Having lots of available system resources (e.g., 32 GB memory) does not mean that they are all being properly managed by the OS and installed apps.

How old is that Sharkoon PSU? Original to build, new, refurbished, used? History of heavy use for gaming, video editing, even bit mining?

Could be at some threshold state, with respect to Chrome, where PSU simply cannot keep up with whatever Chrome is demanding.

Resources demanind "X" watts. Chrome then moves it all to threshold value = "X + 1" watts and loading problems begin.

6 drives correct? Try disabling them or disconnecting the non-OS drives one at a time. Determing if the page loading issues continue.

Basically just reducing the system's power demands as a matter of elimination.

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Before doing that though, try the following:

Use Resource Monitor and Task Manager (use both tools but only one at a time) to determine what occurs when page loading slows and/or stops.

What system resources are being used, to what extent (%), and what is using any given resource. With and without Chrome, with and with out lots of pages loading.

Set up a window to watch, launch Chrome, let it stablize, open one page. Wait until stable, open the next page and keep watching.

Continue the process until Chrome stops. Check the resources.

Task Manager can be used in much the same manner.

 

[Nachmanowicz]

Omg sorry, I thought I had said it, its on Win 11!!!! ofc

I had checked it before when it stopped working, I was never above 30% ram usage. And only pages from some domains would not load, while others would load normally. Even in the same chrome page, in different tabs.

Though I installed Opera to circunvent the problem, I now have Chrome open just in case to do further testing.