chrome://conflicts - software that crashes Google Chrome

By Vasudev Ram

Typing chrome://conflicts (Windows only) into the Chrome address bar may show you software or malware running on your PC, that is known to cause Google Chrome to crash.



Details:

I had some problem with Google Chrome, so I searched Google for "Chrome crashes".

One of the results was a page on Google's site, titled Software that crashes Google Chrome

Excerpt from that page:

[ Issue

Some third-party software can cause Google Chrome to crash. When this happens, you'll see the message "Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed" or "Aw, Snap!".

You can type chrome://conflicts (Windows only) into the address bar to see whether you have any software or malware known to commonly cause Google Chrome to crash.

Solutions

You can try to fix these crashes by updating, disabling, or uninstalling any conflicting third-party software listed in "about:conflicts" on your computer. Also, take a look at Google Chrome's known issues for specific solutions to resolve crashes caused by some software. ]

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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Saw this recently on the Google Code blog

Tried it out some, it's quite cool and useful, IMO:

New Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-text-to-speech-api-for-chrome.html

As the title of the post indicates, this is about a new Text To Speech (TTS) API for Google Chrome extensions and apps.

Though the blog post title only mentions the API, the post also has links to TTS (i.e. talking) apps for Chrome. You can install them from the Chrome Web Store. There are also links to a couple of other "voices" that can be used for all such Chrome TTS (Text To Speech) apps or extensions. Even without installing the voices, you may be able to run TTS apps using the native voice support of your operating system

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I had developed a simple utility something roughly like it in Delphi a while earlier

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