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Win H8te and Chrome

Unforgiven

Unforgiven

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I'm about to lose it and try and see which will hold up better, a stud and plaster wall or my stupid Win 8 laptop.:mad:

For whatever reason, yesterday it decided Chrome would no longer connect to the internet. Internet Exploiter works fine, I'm posting from that now. I have removed all Chrome Extensions and pluginss. I have rebooted Windows, I have uninstalled Chrome, rebooted again, and reinstalled. Nothing works. All the while , IE works fine.

Any ideas before I test to see how much lift can be created by maximizing the RPM's of this thing while it hurtles across my back yard.
 
Hey bro I don't use Windows but in Chrome go to settings and click advanced settings and see if you are getting put on a proxy I had that happen one time before to me a while back when I first started using Chrome.

But before you give the laptop flying lessons you may just want to ditch windows :D
 
argedion said:
Hey bro I don't use Windows but in Chrome go to settings and click advanced settings and see if you are getting put on a proxy I had that happen one time before to me a while back when I first started using Chrome.

But before you give the laptop flying lessons you may just want to ditch windows :D
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Chromebook is a great option. Assuming he introduced Windows out a window . hehe, (bad pun).

I love my Chromebook 11, but I recommend getting the HP 14.

Always connected to the internet.

Or....


Have you considered using IE? It's much better than Chrome anyway... (Burst out laughing)
 
Unforgiven said:
So, it turns out my video driver not being up to date was the problem.:rolleyes:
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How the?! What the?! Who the?!

ARRRRGGGGHHHH. :banghead: (Sidenote: we need a facepalm smilie).

Only in windows would that make sense. Chrome shouldn't be talking to anything more advanced than your standard DDraw API, which obviously already works with existing drivers since it displays your desktop just fine......

....Not sure who is failing more, the driver developers who couldn't handle normal webpage rendering or Chrome developers for fixing something that wasn't broken.
 
Joelgp83 said:
How the?! What the?! Who the?!

ARRRRGGGGHHHH. :banghead: (Sidenote: we need a facepalm smilie).

Only in windows would that make sense. Chrome shouldn't be talking to anything more advanced than your standard DDraw API, which obviously already works with existing drivers since it displays your desktop just fine......

....Not sure who is failing more, the driver developers who couldn't handle normal webpage rendering or Chrome developers for fixing something that wasn't broken.
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I believe it does though. Chrome can use the GPU for compositing.
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium...cuments/gpu-accelerated-compositing-in-chrome

If there was a buggy video driver it could certainly cause problems for Chrome. And so updating the video driver apparently fixed it.
 
Ok, that's true, but chrome was working the day before yesterday with the older drivers. Therefore, some dev on either side broke something for no reason.


....And a GPU driver bug should not be interfering with Chrome's CONNECTION to the internet, which was the original symptom.
 
Joelgp83 said:
Ok, that's true, but chrome was working the day before yesterday with the older drivers. Therefore, some dev on either side broke something for no reason.
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Chrome updates itself in the background by default, something could have broken or changed with the last release.


Joelgp83 said:
....And a GPU driver bug should not be interfering with Chrome's CONNECTION to the internet, which was the original symptom.
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Was it actually telling you it was offline and couldn't connect, with a message, or was it just giving a blank page or something?
 
It would hang on a blank page and would say "connecting" in the bottom left. It was some googling in IE (which worked perfectly) that led me to the relationship between the video drivers and chrome. It was from 2012 and Win 7, but the symptoms were identical. Seems to be a recurring issue.:rolleyes:
 
Unforgiven said:
With help like that I should find another forum. Thanks.
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:p

I have an idea. This will give you a glimpse of the wonderfulness of Linux without changing anything on your system. Download and run a 'live' CD/DVD/whatever. As everyone here knows, I'm very partial to Kubuntu, but there are many fine distros out there. Just try it...see how nice it is to just have things work like they're supposed to. And when you're done, reboot, and that's it. (Unless you decide to press the 'install' button, of course. :D)
 
Well as much as I love ya moody and as much as I love Linux this isn't helping to solve the issue. Pup I would recommend turning of all your chrome extensions and see if it still gives you this issue. I have found even in Linux that chromium will act very much like this. I have only a few extensions a adblock, a flashdontrun/show and hangouts. I have encountered several connection issues and have found that an extension has been the issue. So try turning them all off and then one by one turn them on until you have issues again.
 
Okay, guys, we're derailing this thread. Note I said "WE" as I'm guilty, too. How about starting a different thread to discuss Linux and browsers, or just add that to the uber Linux thread?

ETA: Never mind. Posts moved to their own thread. :)
 
Didn't one time Microsoft would make other browsers act weird so that people would end up running IE, maybe that's the case with W8. I still don't trust MS.
 
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