I run Chrome on my laptop and it randomly freezes shortly after opening a new tab. It is a rather old notebook (MSI Megabook GX600 Extreme) with a Core2Duo and 2GB RAM. It runs Ubuntu 12.10 64Bit.
As soon as the interface locks up, massive read / writes seem to occur as the hard drive starts to get noisy. In another thread, someone recommend running free -m, which showed memory being fully used with only 50MB? Free and swap being used 1500MB of 2000MB.
How can I prevent Chrome from locking up the system like that? Will limiting the memory available to it help?
