byutv.org freezing Chrome Browser and the computer

It seems going to byutv.org in Google Chrome for me is freezing the browser and the entire computer, basically the mouse pointer can still move but very slowly except there is no control of the computer as you can't even close the browser tab even for over an hour so I eventually had to hold down the power button for 10 seconds to shut the machine off. Is there any other way without forcing the computer off with the power button? This is on a i7-8750H with 32GB of ram. Anyone able to successfully load byutv.org in Chrome?

Almighty1 said:

Is there any other way without forcing the computer off with the power button?

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Ctrl/Alt/Delete

Almighty1 said:

Anyone able to successfully load byutv.org in Chrome?

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Yes.

@Edwin - Keyboard entries like Ctrl+F4 or Ctrl+W and Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing as it's supposed to pull up the Lock, Switch User, Sign Out, Task Manager screen along with a cancel option but it didn't do anything as the computer seems to be at 100% CPU or something, the mouse cursor is the only thing that even has a life but even that moves like 1mm every 5 seconds and clicking does nothing. Maybe it depends on if one is running on a desktop vs a laptop like in my case too.

Does it do this in all browsers? I had no problem in Vivaldi just now. Do you have Hardware Acceleration on? Try it with it off (knowing you may have to hard shut down if it freezes). Open the task manager and minimize to upper corner and see what it shows when it's stuck. Click to open site then immediately click the task manager on taskbar

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I think the problem is with Chrome only with certain pages as I had a similar issue when someone wrote a article that was really long and it only froze Chrome but not the computer but the same URL worked fine in Firefox. The problem is when it's stuck as in this case is nothing can be opened or closed as other than the mouse pointer moving but clicking doesn't work, ctrl-F4, ctrl-w doesn't work and neither does ctrl-alt-del which is supposed to give the screen to open up the task manager. Even the clock has froze and will only periodically change once every few minutes as I have seconds turned on. If task manager was working, it would be easy to just kill the task. Yes, I do have hardware acceleration on. I'll try it again with Hardware Acceleration off and what's weird is unlike how I use Chrome Beta with lots of tabs, this is a new install of Chrome Dev and the only Chrome running with this as the only tab.

I use an ad blocker extension running in chrome and absolutely no issues with the website.
Adguard.com is the ad blocker

I haven't had the chance to tried turning Hardware Acceleration off on Chrome yet but on Firefox Beta, the page completely loads without any hassle or freezing. On Chrome, I remember the page was still trying to load....

I tried Chrome with Hardware Acceleration off and the same thing happened, I managed to get control of the computer again when I clicked on the mouse and Chrome had the not responding on the title bar of the window and ofcourse I clicked and Chrome crashed. Ctrl-alt-delete did show the black screen where it gave the option to choose task manager which I clicked on but task manager did not show up after clicking it for 5 minutes and only after Chrome crashed. I also tried defining here for Chrome to use the nVidia GTX 1050Ti on the notebook instead of the Intel i7-8750H for graphics and it had the same problem but this time I used a incognito window so Ctrl-F4 did work and this time computer was working normally as only the incognito window closed while Chrome was still working which I am typing on now. Firefox doesn't have the problem with the defaults which is hardware acceleration still on, wonder what is causing it. I had a similar problem back in July 2024 with Chrome which also worked fine in Firefox but it wasn't as bad as it only cause Chrome to freeze and then it would work again with this URL:
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Another example is when reading a very long e-mail which I had with LinkedIn as it contained like the last 200 messages in that one message, it also freezes in Chrome and then resumes and freezes so it seems to be a issue with running out of resources somehow...

I just tried the same site and have Windows using the built in Intel GPU on the i7-8750H and with a incognito window in Chrome and it still had the same problem but atleast the mouse click was able to close that window while the rest of Chrome still worked afterwards.

This problem also exists in Microsoft EDGE and Brave so it seems to be something related to Chrome based browsers. I tested this again a few days ago and while the actual site will take some time before it shows the contents of the main page, it seems to be freezing the mouse pointer for a long time. Is there another way to troubleshoot this to figure out what is causing the problem exactly?

It opens and plays the videos (that are allowed without login) on Edge here.

Yes, I know it works on some systems which is why I am asking the question and trying to figure out what is causing it. Your system is also way newer than mines. So far I know it's not because of memory. So I am not talking about even playing the videos but just to load the site itself.

There's something with the site that stops screen capture working. Just gives a black screen. I suppose you've disabled all extensions to try?
Could be CPU usage as well.

Tried byutv.org just now on Edge and Firefox, no issue except the pages seem incomplete, none of the "legals" usually at the bottom of a sites' pages such as contacts, About, etc. Checked the link on SeaMonkey and did get more complete information.

Based on the rest of my post, it must be some setting on your PC as I was able to load it on multiple browser incl. Chrome.
Doing this post from Brave on my iPad which (to be fair) is iOS not Win11.
PS: it loaded on brave, safari and opera on my iPad, so it doesn’t appear to be the website.