Edge and Chrome freezes while browsing making Windows not responsive for 1 minute follow by Windows explorer behave strangely

I have the same issue on a newly built machine, new copy of Windows as of yesterday.

I can recreate the issue on demand.  Open Chrome (or Edge) and search "Adobe illustrator"  then click Buy now.  It will freeze for a about a minute and then come to life again.  It will happen with other sites too, but the adobe buy now will make it happen every time.

Viewing the process explorer, I see other threads still active and clicking on items in the bookmarks bar does cause process to spawn and die, though nothing happens on the screen.

It is a new machine but has an older graphics card in it for now.

Thanks for this, I tried it and the "on demand" recreation paramaters you showed trigger the same freeze event for me, IMMEDIATELY.

I will say my graphics card is older AMD Radeon HD 6400 Series, as you mentioned that fact too.  But then again my whole machine is "older" AMD Phenom II X4 960T 3Ghz.

Wonder if enabling overclocking would have any effect?  I use AMD Overdrive to overclock sometimes (as my bios is retail ASUS / won't allow bios configurable overclocking).

I assuming that you are using Intel based CPU? I could be wrong. But in between both Intel and AMD, it seems like this issue are more obvious in AMD CPUs. As my work PC is Intel's I5 while at home it is AMD CPU.

After turning off hardware acceleration, I have opened many tabs, some with video's, netflix, and other content and have yet to experience a freeze.  However, I will monitor the situation and report if the problem arises again.   It is a amazing the OS provides little to know assistance in reporting the issue.  You would think there would be a meaningful logged event pointing to the culprit.

I have the same exact issue - Chromium browsers freezing and unfreezing randomly.  This is a flaw in the development process and should be fixed.  There are way too many of us having the issue and it is unbelievable we have to go through all of the ridiculous resolution steps and none of them work (Microsoft support just guessing). 

However, turning off hardware acceleration seems to do the trick, so there Microsoft, - go figure out why the code in the hardware acceleration setting causes the Chromium freeze issues.

Good luck with this, now try clear everything on your Edge/Chrome(history, cache, everything) and try browsing few homepages at the same time(click on 1 tab, don't wait for it to load and go for another tab and repeat this for 4-5 tabs).

While waiting, try to open a video from your PC.

Repeat the above steps for few times where during repeating this, open another new homepages. Mine sure will fail on 3rd-4th time or could be faster.

After changing to Firefox, such issue are lesser, could be 1 week once(after I clear browser) or cannot get at all.

I have the same exact issue - Chromium browsers freezing and unfreezing randomly.  This is a flaw in the development process and should be fixed.  There are way too many of us having the issue and it is unbelievable we have to go through all of the ridiculous resolution steps and none of them work (Microsoft support just guessing). 

However, turning off hardware acceleration seems to do the trick, so there Microsoft, - go figure out why the code in the hardware acceleration setting causes the Chromium freeze issues.