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Every time I try and sign into a Google Account on Chrome the browser crashes. I have multiple users set up on chrome for personal and business use and need to sign to use the different accounts. After upgrading to macOS Monterey version 12.2.1 this issue has started to appear. I have re-installed Chrome, turned off hardware acceleration, cleared the cache etc, but nothing seems to resolve the issue. This is just one of the many bugs that have appeared after upgrading to Monterey!
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Anecdotally, I had several reports from users at work that Edge and Chrome were both randomly crashing all of a sudden. Mix of Big Sur and Catalina and all auto-update Edge & Chrome. Edge is based on Chromium the open source part of Google Chrome. I really think it's a Chromium bug. I had some users clear browser data and disable all their extensions and I didn't hear back yet. I switched one user to FireFox and that seemed to solve it for them. But they only used Chrome to login to another companies 365 account and used Chrome as an alternate to Safari to keep both systems apart as there are authentication problems switching 365 accounts or cloud identity logins on the same browser. It was only some of the users most were fine with no reports of crashing.
I've been having this problem for months with Catalina, and it was getting worse and worse. I tried malware scans, hardware checks, Etrecheck, removing plugins, clean reinstall of Chrome, etc. Nothing made it better... it actually seemed to be happening more. Tabs continued to crash with "aw, snap", and all different error codes 5, 6, 10, 11, etc. None of which give any useful information. The sites that cause the most instability are Facebook and Microsoft Teams. Both sites that are resource heavy, but tabs with not much going on would also crash.
The last thing I tried seems to be working (fingers crossed), and that was to Reset Settings to default. Because Chrome settings are synced like passwords and bookmarks, a clean install was maybe syncing back some bad setting that was causing crashing.
I had this same problem, from Catalina, to Monterey, and it ended up not being a problem with Chrome, but the actual MacBook Pro had memory errors which were not detected by Apple Diagnostics. I had to boot with a MemTest86 USB and found all kinds of memory errors.
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