I’ve been using the Chrome beta channel for quite awhile, and with the exception of a few specific issues (*cough* breaking copy and paste of URLs *cough*) I’ve been happy with it. When the upgrade from version 17 to 18 happened things got worse.
I’m currently on 18.0.1025.39 beta and I’ve run into two different pages where Chrome suddenly started to eat all available memory (and keeps going into swap) and will burn about 30% CPU. Both pages work fine in Chrome 17 and Safari (and every other browser I’ve tried), but suffer from this same crippling issue in Chrome 18. Debugging why Chrome is doing this has been very difficult since my machine grinds to a halt trying allocate all memory to Chrome.
Has anyone else seen this type of problem with Chrome 18? Probably time to go searching through tickets for Chrome 18 to see if this has been reported already.