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Google Chrome Blue Screens Win 7 x64

by Tim on December 30th, 2009

Google Chrome is one big fail on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. I loaded it up, used it for debugging a Flash app from Eclipse, then tried to apply a theme. The google theme page did nothing after I clicked on a “load theme” button (Jeff Koons, btw) and about 4 seconds later I was looking at a blue screen. Something I haven’t seen yet on Win 7. Way to go, Chrome.
So I decided to try to run Chrome as an admin. This was not as straightforward as you might think, since the application is not installed to Program Files like every other Windows application on Earth. God knows why, but Google chose to install Chrome in my user profile AppData directory. You cannot select an alternative location when installing. I figured I would just move this directory to Program Files where it belonged, but Chrome would no longer start if moved from it’s original install location. At this point I was one step away from abandoning this b.s.
I started it up one more time as an admin and got another blue screen before it even loaded.
And that was the final step. Goodbye Chrome.

By the way, Chrome does not sandbox the Flash plug in, so all the hype about having each tab in its own thread is worthless for Flash Player lock ups. If Flash Player shits the bed, it requires restarting just like FF and IE.

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