Freeze & Crash a Chromebook with Simple URLs
Release time：2023-05-19 23:21:26 oRead0
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Crash Using a URL
- 1 Open Google Chrome on your Chromebook. Click the icon on your desktop or taskbar that looks like a blue circle surrounded by a multicolor circle.
- 2 Type chrome://inducebrowsercrashforrealz/ in the URL bar. This is a built-in debugging link that simulates a browser crash. Keep in mind that this will crash the Chromebook, so you will lose any unsaved work.
- 3 Press ↵ Enter on your keyboard to crash your Chromebook. While this will crash your Chromebook, you can start it back up easily after the crash.
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Try these other built-in URLs to crash your Chromebook. These other debugging URLs also crash many Chromebooks as well as the Google Chrome web browser on other computers:
- chrome://crash/
- chrome://gpucrash/
- chrome://restart/
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Yes, the damage done depends on the nature of the crash. Since crashes can be caused by a variety of problems, the damage will vary.
- A mild crash could result in losing data that wasn’t saved.
- An operating system crash may occur if there’s corrupted information on the disk. This could cause additional crashes even after rebooting the computer.
- A crash caused by hardware issues may indicate that one of your Chromebook’s physical components is already damaged.
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The amount of tabs that will crash a Chromebook depends on your model. Chromebooks with more random-access memory (RAM) can open more tabs before crashing. If you're using an older Chromebook with less RAM, opening many tabs (especially tabs with processor-intensive activities like streaming video and games) will likely freeze or crash your Chromebook.
- If your Chromebook is crashing or freezing unexpectedly, try closing tabs.
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Your Chromebook might be crashing due to a software or hardware issue. Crashes or freezes may occur if there is an error with the operating system. Physical hardware failures can also cause crashing.
- An out-of-date operating system increases the chance of your Chromebook crashing.
- Excessive heat or dust can cause hardware to fail and crash the computer.
- Read about more ways to diagnose potential issues causing freezing.