Every time I try to close a youtube tab Chrome crashes?

Is anybody else having this issue? Every single time I try to close a tab that has youtube opened on it, everything just freezes. Sometimes it just freezes and I have to stop the unresposive browser, and other times it tells me.

"The following plug-in is unresponsive: Shockwave Flash. Would you like to stop it?"

I've tried re-installing everything, yes.

I've been getting a shitload of those lately. It's not linked with the Youtube stuff for me, though. Haven't actually been able to find a common denominator.

@courtney12490 said:

I've been getting a shitload of those lately. It's not linked with the Youtube stuff for me, though. Haven't actually been able to find a common denominator.

It happens to me randomly too. But it's when I close a youtube tab 99% of the time.

That's been happening to me quite often in the past few months.

Same thing is happening to me. Apparently it's some sort of bug that happens with the new YouTube. I think if you go to youtube.com/html5 and get into that beta to watch vids using HTML5, it helps, but right now we just gotta wait for an update.

It's a known problem acknowledged by Chrome support people. Supposedly, they're working on it.

It has to do with the Shockwave plugin. It happened to me in the past.

Yeah, it's Shockwave, and it's been happening to me so often that my 70/30 Chrome/Firefox split is now 20/80.

Yep happened to me the other day. My solution is this if it freezes open up the task manager and go to "processes" and close the chrome process that is using the most memory. If you pick the right one you should be able to shut down the shockwave plugin without having to exit the entire browser.

Yup! Every damn time!

This just started happening to me yesterday too, every time I close a youtube tab it locks up completely.

@ajamafalous said:

Yeah, it's Shockwave, and it's been happening to me so often that my 70/30 Chrome/Firefox split is now 20/80.

This

Okay good. It's not just me.

Me too. Hm.

It's a known bug, they're working on it. 
I just go to the uploaders channel after I watched a video, change the tab and THEN close it when it's not in focus. Doesn't crash if you do it like that

I've been getting that error in a lot of weird instances and having it crash.

for me it often crashes when i have two separate flash things up at the same time.. like a podcast and a video or something. it crashes flash on every site you have open and freezes chrome completely.. so i have to shut the down the browser and get everything back up.. its kinda annoying

Come back to Firefox, less RAM usage and better add-ons. >:) Then again not sure why I even care about RAM usage I'm never going to hit RAM limits when just browsing the net.

Shame Firefox still doesn't have PDF support, WTF, Mozilla?! (or an official full screen mode for OS X Lion, sigh)

As @mnzy already mentioned, they're working on a fix as we speak!

I've been having the same problems as well.

Good, it's not just me.

Yeah, glad that I'm not the only one experiencing this. Happens very often and it's very annoying.

I've been having similar problems as well, but mine happens when I've opened many videos on different tabs.

If you sign up for the HTML5 beta it seems to fix it (on Chrome at least).

http://www.youtube.com/html5

Yah same. 

It just started happening to me yesterday!!! I have to remember to google asdf before I close the tab.

I did some research. Google knows that it's a problem and it will be fixed in the next Chrome update. Though you probably won't notice since Chrome updates in the background and doesn't alert you.

Had this problem once yesterday, but nothing today...

Yep, yesterday and today. Good to know I'm not alone.