Too much randomness
Two identical 16GB machines with Ubuntu 14.04.1
The one that was upgraded from 12.04 is fine (it's what I'm using right now). The new install crashed with the Aww snap nonsense. Turning off hardware acceleration reduced that (and fixed a Google Maps display issue) but flash still crashes regularly. No problem when it's just an ad but a pita with some other stuff.
Similar hardware with Win7Pro doesn't exhibit any problems.
But 8GB W7p Laptop Chrome becomes slow to unresponsive usually after just a few minutes use. Finally a 1GB netbook WinXP has never been able to run Chrome although my now defunct 4GB XP and 8GB Vista desktops did without apparent problem.
I started using Chrome because the "bloated" resource hogging of Firefox was getting to be an issue. But liking to use the same bowser on all regularly used machines Chrome has become untenable might mean it's back to Firefox.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
