Gmail – Freezing Issues on Multiple Browsers

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I'm encountering a strange issue with Gmail where it will freeze and crash the browser tab within a few seconds of accessing it (while logged in or after logging in). It seems to be consistent across browsers and platforms — it happens in Chrome 40 and Internet Explorer 11 under Windows 8 on my personal laptop, and in Chrome 40 under Ubuntu 14.04 on my desktop at work.

I managed to quickly access Settings and disable the People widget as suggested here, but it did not help.

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I just tested in Firefox 37 under Ubuntu and finally got a useful error message:

A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.

Script: https://talkgadget.google.com/…

It seems like it might be related to this bug report.

Following this I turned off Chat:

  1. Click the gear icon and choose Settings.
  2. Click the Chat tab.
  3. Choose "Chat off."
  4. Click Save changes.

That seems to have fixed the issue.

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