After upgrading to Ventura, frequent hangs & spinning beachballs when using Chrome browser

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After upgrading to Ventura, frequent hangs & spinning beachballs when using Chrome browser

After upgrading to Ventura, I've noticed frequent hangs & spinning beachballs when using multiple tabs or windows in the Chrome browser.

Sometimes it's spinning beachballs, and other times the computer hangs. I have seconds displayed on my Mac clock, and when it hangs, the seconds stop moving on the clock. When I get the spinning beachball, the seconds don't stop running.

The beachballs happen when I navigate from tab to tab or from window to window, and the hangs happen when I'm doing things inside a browser on a site; for example, typing this message hung up the Mac 2 times.

I'm using Ventura 13.0.1 and a MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2021 M1 Max with 32GB of RAM. The Chrome browser is Version 107.0.5304.110 (Official Build) (arm64)

I don't have these issues when I switch over to Safari. Next, I will try to disable some of my Chrome plugins.

MacBook Pro Apple Silicon

Posted on Nov 17, 2022 6:57 AM

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Owl-53

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Nov 17, 2022 7:05 AM in response to Garrett N.

No doubt there will plenty of replies so shall commence with this.

Google Chrome may be very popular in some cases a Company Requirement.

That said, Google Chrome is a well known CPU and Memory Hog. Especially when Multi Tabs or Windows of Chrome are open.

It, Google Chrome is also known to Harvest the User Data and sells this data to Third Parties to help with their Balance Sheet ( Accounts )

There are plenty of alternatives outside of Google Chrome which may provide a similar experience only without the OverHead associated with Google Chrome.

Off the top - www.brave.com comes to mind as goes Firefox ( which I use from time to time. ) as an alternative to Safari

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