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

Anonymous
2020-12-12T02:31:53+00:00

As title says, my Windows behave strangely every now and then. When browsing, it may freeze for a minute or so follow by making I can't open everything. If I'm lucky enough, this issue last for 2 hours, if not, I need to restart the PC. Photo below tells it all. 

Microsoft Edge | Browser crashes or stops working | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-17T18:25:37+00:00

    I have an older, but perfectly adequate system, in my mind.  I am not a gamer so don't need anything that fancy.

    I have an Radeon HD 5400 graphics card on a Gigabyte board with AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core Processor and 8 Gig of RAM, using Windows 10 Pro.

    Clearly in the minds of Microsoft and Google, this system belongs in the Smithsonian or Victoria and Albert Museum.  I thought we were supposed to be in a new "don't throw it away" world.

    They do need to fix this issue, or don't they see it is an issue as it our fault for having "outdated equipment"?  We shouldn't have to turn off hardware acceleration, and if that is needed the operating system should be able to detect that and suggest a workaround, as we have discovered.  Those that are less savvy than us may just decide, unnecessarily, that is time for a new computer.  Very sad and disappointing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-16T01:10:52+00:00

    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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-02T08:20:15+00:00

    Trust me, this methods will not work.

    It is working for me at the moment.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-02T04:37:13+00:00

    You’re welcome. By the way Lafayette4, ironically, I went to Lafayette high school in Brooklyn; in the last century ;-)

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-02-02T01:21:04+00:00

    Trust me, this methods will not work.

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