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发帖数: 3492 | 1 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:25:50 PDT
Over the past several days, Gizmodo has been highlighting freezing and
crashing issues on several of its staff's new MacBook Air models, linking
the problems to Google Chrome. Switching to Apple's Safari browser
eliminated all of the issues, and thus the site recommended that owners of
the new machines avoid Chrome for the time being.
Google has now issued a statement to Gizmodo acknowledging that Chrome is
the culprit and discussing the steps it is taking to address the issue.
While Google has disabled some of Chrome's GPU acceleration on an emergency
basis as it seeks to deploy a permanent solution, the company has also filed
a bug report with Apple as such issues should not be able to cause an
entire system to freeze or crash.
"We have identified a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser
related to the drawing of plugins on Mac OS X. Work is proceeding to find
and fix the root cause of the leak.
The resource leak is causing a kernel panic on Mac hardware containing the
Intel HD 4000 graphics chip (e.g. the new Macbook Airs). Radar bug number
11762608 has been filed with Apple regarding the kernel panics, since it
should not be possible for an application to trigger such behavior.
While the root cause of the leak is being fixed, we are temporarily
disabling some of Chrome's GPU acceleration features on the affected
hardware via an auto-updated release that went out this afternoon (Thursday
June 28). We anticipate further fixes in the coming days which will re-
enable many or all of these features on this hardware."
With the issue affecting all systems using Intel HD 4000 graphics, all of
Apple's notebook models released earlier this month are susceptible and
owners of the new MacBook Pro models are indeed also reporting the issue.
First launched in September 2008, Chrome has steadily gained in overall
popularity among desktop Internet browsers and is currently running neck-and
-neck with Firefox for the second position behind Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. |
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