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Has anyone else had a problem with Chrome where you hard-drive starts seeking (audible noise of it working) and never stops?

I thought turning off the anti-phishing feature would fix it, but I recently got it again. I've seen it happen on both Macs and Windows PCs.

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Yes, if you close the right instance, it stops. but there doesn't seem to be any correlation with whatever page was in that instance. I've also had issues with an instance suddenly using 20-50% of the CPU for no reason.

Chrome is now my primary browser, but this one issue has made me consider switching back to Firefox.

I don't know if this is your problem, but Chrome on Linux has some memory leaks that occasionally put my 2GB desktop into swap. Luckily I can use the Chrome task manager to find the offending tab and kill it.

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