Windows 7 freezing when Chrome crashes

[Wolfbane]

So my computer isn't exactly low spec (i5 2500, GTX 550Ti, 8GB DDR3), but I've been having this problem where the OS becomes unresponsive (i.e. a couple of seconds delay between clicking something and getting a response) sometimes when a tab crashes in Chrome.

This last time when it happened the OS didn't even pick up that Chrome had crashed, Chrome itself decided (after a couple of minutes of frustration) to close the crashed tabs.

The weird part is that there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to freeze. When everything was frozen I was still only using 70% of 1 CPU core (and 1-5% of the other 3). I'd try to get more details, but it's a little hard to do anything when it freezes (the CPU values I got from Rainmeter on my desktop).

Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know the cause and/or a fix?

[StrikedOut]

Can you disable plug ins in chrome? If dissable all, then enable one at a time. It sounds like a plug in is causing the problem.

Is there anything in the event viewer that coensides with the crash?

[Wolfbane]

Can you disable plug ins in chrome? If dissable all, then enable one at a time. It sounds like a plug in is causing the problem.

Is there anything in the event viewer that coensides with the crash?

Event Viewer:

Fault bucket , type 0

Event Name: AppHangTransient

Response: Not available

Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:

P1: chrome.exe

P2: 16.0.912.77

P3: 4f18cd7b

P4: unknown

P5: unknown

P6: unknown

P7: unknown

P8:

P9:

P10:

Attached files:

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Analysis symbol:

Rechecking for solution: 0

Report Id: 9d2a886f-52f9-11e1-beee-1c6f65d76de9

Report Status: 1

The problem with disabling plugins is that it happens randomly for apparently no reason (i.e. I don't know the reason and so can't predict it), so I can't just test it (and it could take weeks to test each plugin by waiting for a crash to happen).

Here's the plugins list just in case I have a plugin that is known to crash.

[sikhwarrior]

Flash , Shockwave are the two most common crashes in chrome or any browser. Personally when my chrome crashes it only kills flash/shockwave plug in and leaves everything alone. Try disabling flash and see if chrome still crashes.