Ask HN: Has Hacker News been unusable on Chrome for anyone else?

[sss111]

I'm running into a frustrating issue where Google Chrome slows down or goes into a loading state while reading big threads on hackernews. (For example this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 or this post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427982 )

All I have to do is start clicking the minimize button on threads and my entire PC stops responding.

I have a really beefy setup so its most likely not from there

Has anyone else run into this?

So far been able to replicate on: - Windows 11, Chrome v140.0.7339.208

Also tried incognito mode in Chrome, disabled all extensions. Interestingly, doesn't happen on macOS.

[DemocracyFTW2]

Works for me (using Vivaldi on Linux Mint)

[sss111]

yeah Firefox or Vivaldi don't have this issue!

[FergusArgyll]

Works fine for me Win 11 Chrome 140.0.7339.208

8 gb ram i5

[sss111]

Oh wow. I'm on 64GB, Ryzen 5.

[FergusArgyll]

Intel for the w :) /s

On a more serious note; chatgpt thinks that it may be caused by GPU driver issues - which would explain why your setup is having a harder time (my gpu is intel standard whatever...) so it suggests turning off hardware acceleration.

It links to these 2

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/edge-and-chrome-freezes-after-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1kgxdno/psa_windows...

I have no way to test this, so do what you want with it.

Chatgpt link https://chatgpt.com/share/68e2c648-c5c0-8003-bcc9-49785c0131...