Is Windows 11 freezing my chrome on purpose so that I use Edge instead...? I think so.

I'm sorry you're having trouble. Chrome has been my default browser for more than a decade, and it has never frozen on me.

There are three ways to solve your freezing problem: very easy, quite easy, and easy.

Very easy: Clear your caches and restart the browser.

Quite easy: Disable all your browser extensions. If that seems to solve the problem, re-enable your extensions, one at a time, until you discover the extension that is causing the problem.

Easy: Uninstall the browser, restart your computer, and re-install the browser. If you are syncing Chrome to your Google account, as you should be, all your browser settings, bookmarks, cookies, extensions, tab history, etc. will automatically restore themselves.

BTW: Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are based on the same Chromium project software.

I have the same problem. I too am suspicious.

Back in the day netscape crashed on windows NT every time you ran it. Unless you renamed it to ANYTHING other than netscape.exe - then it ran fine.

I have the same problem. I find that when this happens, I tend to have six Chrome processes running. (Never more than that, sometimes less than that.) And it happens whch I have been using chrome, the rans something else, then am going back to continue the Chrome work.

I found that going into task manager and killing the chrome processes solves the problem, letting me use chrome for awhile.

It's easier to kill the processes using sysinternals procexp then in taskmgr, because the latter jumps around constantly. And much easier to use sysinternals pskill.

This happens so often that I have placed a shortcut on my desktop to run it. All the shortcut does is run:

D:\sysint\pskill.exe chrome

After running this, Chrome can be run again. Upon startup, it always prompts for whether I want to restore the previous sessions, as if Chrome was actually running the whole time.

I will do this tomorrow and give you an update. Meanwhile, I'm using Edge and it froze on me once. The luck...

Update: I just reinstalled Chrome...I'll wait and see but just before I did this, Chrome froze.

So, I have Re-Installed Chrome and update everything I could think of and still Chrome crashes.... this happens every time...everyday. I just go to the task manager, end 'chrome' task and restart the app. That's all I do when it freezes up like 3-4 times a day. Nothing I could do...

I use Edge and get less freeze but still freeze too. Can't we all work together??? in harmony....

Please...