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This began to happen occasionally and it seemed that clearing the browser cache and restarting it solved the problem, but now it doesn't works and it makes no sense: I can have 150 tabs open just fine and next session it crumbles and uses all 4 cores at 100% with >10 tabs open.

Both Chromium and Iron are working fine without any of these issues, could it be the chrome install is corrupted? how do I reinstall it without losing all my app configs?

Any idea what could be causing this?

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Can you run chrome with extensions disabled? From the command line run: chrome --disable-extensions? Does the problem occur again? – maggotbrain Jan 17 at 5:06

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Sometimes you've got 150 tabs open at the same time, so maybe you're overloading the browser disk cache. Since you've got a 4 cores available in your system, you've probably also got enough RAM for you to use some of the available RAM to give your browser cache some help. In Firefox you can do this by typing "about:config" in the address bar and then modifying the entry for "browser.cache.memory.max_entry_size" to a higher number such as 256000 or even 512000, depending on the amount of available RAM in your system.

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No, its totally random, I can have 150 tabs without any slowdown or anything, and then during a different session chrome goes crazy with just 10 tabs or even less. Is like a countdown: when those random errors happen chrome runs fine for about 5 min and then goes crazy. – Ghost Jan 17 at 22:54

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