[Q] Android freeze when changing tabs in Google Chrome - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

When i disable 'Merge tabs and apps' feature in Google Chrome, I find the animation between changing tabs very janky, and at least twice a day the entire device freezes for a few minutes. Even the power button stops working.
It does this on Android 5.1/LMY47D and LMY47I. Using a clean flash of the factory images, completely stock, unrooted.
Anyone else experiencing the same freezing issues in Google Chrome (even the Chrome Beta version does it) when changing tabs?

No out problems when switching here. I prefer the new style tho

xdatastic said:
When i disable 'Merge tabs and apps' feature in Google Chrome, I find the animation between changing tabs very janky, and at least twice a day the entire device freezes for a few minutes. Even the power button stops working.
It does this on Android 5.1/LMY47D and LMY47I. Using a clean flash of the factory images, completely stock, unrooted.
Anyone else experiencing the same freezing issues in Google Chrome (even the Chrome Beta version does it) when changing tabs?
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Does the same to me and I'm on M
Using mercury browser until its resolved

Noticed it happens on n5 too

xdatastic said:
When i disable 'Merge tabs and apps' feature in Google Chrome, I find the animation between changing tabs very janky, and at least twice a day the entire device freezes for a few minutes. Even the power button stops working.
It does this on Android 5.1/LMY47D and LMY47I. Using a clean flash of the factory images, completely stock, unrooted.
Anyone else experiencing the same freezing issues in Google Chrome (even the Chrome Beta version does it) when changing tabs?
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Same here with stock and rooted N6. Highly annoying and I think it's because of Chrome. I tried Chrome beta two months ago and the same thing happened then and now few weeks ago when the actual Chrome updated, problems started with it too. It worked just fine with previous version without that "pulldown to refresh" update.
Only thing that helps is by pressing power button 10 sec and force reboot.

I've found if I press the power button, a minute or two later the screen will turn off. I can then launch the camera, immediately go to Recent Apps and swipe away the frozen Chrome app.
Hopefully there will be a fix soon.
Thanks everyone for your info. At least I know its not an issue with me

Also seeing this with brand new Nexus 6, LMY47M. Very frustrating. But I can't stand "Merged tabs and apps" --- makes it way to hard to find all my tabs!

davidglasser said:
Also seeing this with brand new Nexus 6, LMY47M. Very frustrating. But I can't stand "Merged tabs and apps" --- makes it way to hard to find all my tabs!
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I found an alternative tab switching method in chrome://flags
Enable Accessibility Tab Switcher.
This removes the animation when switching tabs and presents a basic list of tabs. Not perfect as it can be hard to know which tab is which if you have multiple tabs on the same website.

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Launcher reloading very often and other lag issues

I am using Xperia TX from past 2-3 months now.
I have been facing this problem for sometime. Whenever I go back to home from an app at times as soon as I press the home button , the icons take some time to load around 2-3 seconds which gets annoying sometimes.. This problem increases while using wifi or internet browser...
I have tried clearing dalvik cache but still the problem persists.
Music player also closes at times while using internet browser.. And some times the music player while playing music takes small pauses...
Would love some suggestions.
divirokr said:
I am using Xperia TX from past 2-3 months now.
I have been facing this problem for sometime. Whenever I go back to home from an app at times as soon as I press the home button , the icons take some time to load around 2-3 seconds which gets annoying sometimes.. This problem increases while using wifi or internet browser...
I have tried clearing dalvik cache but still the problem persists.
Music player also closes at times while using internet browser.. And some times the music player while playing music takes small pauses...
Would love some suggestions.
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Probably means you've got quite a lot of background apps running and they're causing this issue. I've personally never come across this issue on my tx, but it was a regular occurrence when I had my arc s.
SammiSaysHello said:
Probably means you've got quite a lot of background apps running and they're causing this issue. I've personally never come across this issue on my tx, but it was a regular occurrence when I had my arc s.
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Even I am facing this problem recently. I also had an Arc s before tx. But this phone is a much better performer and has been really smooth. Free RAM is around 300mb , I do clear RAM and running apps are also not that much. Still cant figure out what could have gone wrong. I have rooted my phone and slight modifications have been made ( changed the on screen button theme ) but this issue has cropped up recently.
Depends on the app your running(those ram hungry), try opening a couple of tab pages in chrome and your launcher will surely reload if you go back to home screen. I'm a heavy user of chrome and this has been a normal thing already for me.
Tapatalked from my bricked TX
Rycon33 said:
Depends on the app your running(those ram hungry), try opening a couple of tab pages in chrome and your launcher will surely reload if you go back to home screen. I'm a heavy user of chrome and this has been a normal thing already for me.
Tapatalked from my bricked TX
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Same thing is happning with me also when i open chrome with more than 2-3 tabs and after pressing home button launcher redraws this is really annoying. I have tried to ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 in build.prop still no luck. Any workaround for it????
akshayacharya007 said:
Same thing is happning with me also when i open chrome with more than 2-3 tabs and after pressing home button launcher redraws this is really annoying. I have tried to ro.HOME_APP_ADJ=1 in build.prop still no luck. Any workaround for it????
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for me working this -
downlaid from play store app named System Tuner...
run it, on right botton is Tweaks - click it - OOM- presents very agresive
for me working
mmm273 said:
for me working this -
downlaid from play store app named System Tuner...
run it, on right botton is Tweaks - click it - OOM- presents very agresive
for me working
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Ok let me try it out...

[Q] Firefox for Android keeps crashing?

Has anyone looked into why Firefox for Android keeps crashing on the Xperia V whenever a given page has one or more embedded videos or animations in it? I have three V's, all running the 9.2.A.2.5 firmware, and they all exhibit the problem, to the extent that caused me to stop using Firefox altogether, even on my Windows machines.
sjanzeir said:
Has anyone looked into why Firefox for Android keeps crashing on the Xperia V whenever a given page has one or more embedded videos or animations in it? I have three V's, all running the 9.2.A.2.5 firmware, and they all exhibit the problem, to the extent that caused me to stop using Firefox altogether, even on my Windows machines.
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I have SG4 stock and since last update FF crashes within about 5 sec of loading a page (any page). Tried to download the beta and have the same problem. So, for now, stopped using ff altogether on the desktop and mobile... since I need the sync feature, I switched to chrome while waiting for this to be resolved.
davidshooki said:
since I need the sync feature, I switched to chrome while waiting for this to be resolved.
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Ditto. Alas, Mozilla and Firefox used to be so good...
I have tried to leave feed back on the android/google app store. But, f***ing google requires you to sign up for Google Plus account just too leave feed back (talk about trying to passive-aggressively force you into a service)... and I am absolutely refusing to sign up with that stupid service. So, for now can't leave any feed back for firefox or any other ****y/good app.
davidshooki said:
I have SG4 stock and since last update FF crashes within about 5 sec of loading a page (any page). Tried to download the beta and have the same problem. So, for now, stopped using ff altogether on the desktop and mobile... since I need the sync feature, I switched to chrome while waiting for this to be resolved.
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Update: uninstalling Adblock Plus somewhat helped, but I haven't tested FFfM long enough to be sure that ABP was the actual cause of the problem yet, mainly due to another annoying FFfM issue - flickering text. On any given page, the text blurs out for about one second at five-second intervals. I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to the Xperia V or is a general issue; I haven't tried FFfM on any other devices.

App defaults clearing/resetting.

Ive been having an issue with mainly the home key default and the default sms app going back to default. I have the lolipop messenger set as my default and randomly it will change back to the stock app and i miss texts, anyone know a fix? Im rooted with xposed and running dynamic kat 4.0
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I had an issue with defaults not sticking on the S3. Turned out to be a random app somehow mucking things up (phone to chrome). I isolated by disabling bunches of user apps within tibu until the behavior straightened out...
I finally gave in and just stuck to using the stock messenger which is the only one it actually stays on, meanwhile the homekey has just gotten worse. Every reboot, even a soft reboot clears it, not even setting google now as the action in gravity box will make it open that by default. Is there any log or something i could check to see what is doibg this?
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Seems its gotten worse, my launcher wont stick as default, and it ws showing google now launcher which i have frozen, and acccording to app info on it if i switched to it it was google search, which i temporarily froze to test and the launcher option went away. Also google swarch has been killing my battery, says about 50% in the stats, chrrently android system is in the 30% area, a lot of things are higher than usual and screen brightness literally isnt even showing up, so i am extremely confused, anyone know what the hell is going on?
Edit: I had a newer version of google search (google now) installed from lollipop, so i uninstalled it and reinstalled the market kne and everything seems to have calmed down now, but it still wont stay as the default long press action for thr home key, it even shows up in app defaults, its listed there as the default for something, but I have to set google as the default for long press every time i reboot the phone.
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So i used to use google keyboard, and it was fine, but i installed a modified one so i could get the material theme with the number row, and every time i rebooted it would go to samsung keyboard. So i froze the samsung keyboard and its "fixed" now, but obviously not a good solution as it kind of cripples UPSM since i wont be able to type.
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After 5.1, I have 2 different "sets" of Chrome tabs

I don't use the recents integration ( because I would never find tabs again). It seems since I upgraded to 5.1 (or it could be coincidence) I have two different sets of tabs in Chrome. When I open a link or the app, sometimes one set opens, sometimes the other. There is no way of switching between them.
I've tried uninstalling updates, deleting cache, and turning the "mix tabs with recents" on and off.
Tsukasa Buddha said:
I don't use the recents integration ( because I would never find tabs again). It seems since I upgraded to 5.1 (or it could be coincidence) I have two different sets of tabs in Chrome. When I open a link or the app, sometimes one set opens, sometimes the other. There is no way of switching between them.
I've tried uninstalling updates, deleting cache, and turning the "mix tabs with recents" on and off.
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When you open a new browser window it goes into your recent apps menu. You can change it in chrome settings
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When you open a new browser window it goes into your recent apps menu. You can change it in chrome settings
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That isn't what he is talking about, and if you read his question, you would understand that he has disabled this in the chrome settings menu.

Chrome crashing after upgrading to Android 11

This is the first time I've seen weird behaviour on Chrome and it started after installing Android 11. When I open Chrome it just closes right away. I need to open it about 10-20 times for it to finally stay open. I tried installing Chrome beta and it works better although sometimes it gives the same issue.
I tried clearing all the data in Chrome but didn't help. Wondering if anyone had this issue or has suggestions to fix.
dortok said:
This is the first time I've seen weird behaviour on Chrome and it started after installing Android 11. When I open Chrome it just closes right away. I need to open it about 10-20 times for it to finally stay open. I tried installing Chrome beta and it works better although sometimes it gives the same issue. I tried clearing all the data in Chrome but didn't help. Wondering if anyone had this issue or has suggestions to fix.
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Since chrome beta is a stand alone app and can be run beside chrome, it seems you have some kind of hard configuration error or corruption. I'm guessing you have already uninstalled/reinstalled the app. If you are unlocked I would try a dirty flash using the full image (not OTA). Next I would backup everything and wipe the phone, installing 11 fresh. Sometimes stuff happens and you just have to reinstall. Not a bad idea going from 10-11. In addition to chrome beta, I use Firefox beta because it supports extensions (eg. uBlock). If the thought of wiping your phone is too much work for this single issue, it may be time to try another browser. Best of luck and let us know how you get it resolved.
Turns out it was app list mode on edxposed that was causing the issue. After disabling it, it works normally again!

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