Comments on: New MacBook Air Freezing & Crashing? Try Using Safari or Chrome Canary For Now

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:29:57 +0000

It is not just Chrome. I had Kernel panics, uninstalled Chrome and started using Firefox…got kernel panics.

Unchecked hardware acceleration in Firefox…still get kernel panics

Moving to Safari and just got a Kernel Panic using Lightroom 4 (no browser open at the time).

I am not sure if it is Chrome. It could be software – the question is if three different apps generate Kernel panics – is it the apps or is it the OS or is it some issue with hardware?

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:56:03 +0000

I tried that but there is no new update… :s

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:02:59 +0000

Unless you disabled automatic updating, it will update itself. You just need to relaunch Chrome for the update to apply. You can check for updates by going to the Chrome menu and selecting “About Chrome”

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:01:58 +0000

‘If you have a new MacBook Pro or MacBook Air and use Chrome, update it now to receive the temporary fix.”

So where do I go to update it? Or is it saying to download Chrome Canary?

By: Jorma

Jorma — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:07:53 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=133885

It’s an issue with Chrome & flash, disabling hw acceleration on flash should help.

By: Gsr

Gsr — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:36:53 +0000

My 2010 mbp lion has been getting this. Sometimes the apps would crash if visiting sites or doing work on them.

By: Xman71

Xman71 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:30:38 +0000

My baseline MBA 11″ 2011 model has had this problem since Day 1. Chrome makes it worse but even with a clean-wipe and reinstall with no Chrome on it at all, it still does it 2 or 3 times a week. Hope Mountain Lion straightens this out!

By: Chook

Chook — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:26:59 +0000

Just happened to me. 2012 MacBook with Chrome watching YouTube.

By: BuddyBenny

BuddyBenny — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:57:32 +0000

I was having difficulty with Firefox and Chrome causing system crashes. I disabled hardware acceleration in Firefox and have not had an issue all day.

By: 911

911 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:40:34 +0000

Perhaps just a coincidence, but my 2006 Mac Pro has gotten two of these crashes in the past week – which is very unusual for the machine. I’m wondering if the cause is a bit wider than they realize, some recent update which I could have gotten also.

By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:26:19 +0000

@toto Utter nonsense. 10 years ago would be 2002, the beginning of OS X. I remember kernel panics galore, a factor of 10 higher than today.

Easy solution to the new kernel panics — get rid of Chrome. Google has no incentive to cooperate with Apple these days.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:00:35 +0000

Yup, coming to say this. It’s something to do with the Intel HD 4000 video chip, and maybe something that the built-in Flash plugin is doing causes the crash now that it is GPU accelerated. If you have the Intel 4000 and use Chrome 19.0.1084.56 you will experience it.

By: toto

toto — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:42:36 +0000

Even the older macbook air has kernel panics sometimes. Apple is making much more efforts in building slick geektools rather than investing time and money to make macos actually work. It’s like having a GTR with an ECU made in Astan, useless. Back 10 years ago, a G4 macbook was much more reliable

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:34:18 +0000

How can a userspace app cause a kernel panic?

By: prog99

prog99 — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:19:56 +0000

Also affects 13″ 2012 MBP as well.