I was in low coverage area for a week and was getting "Aw snap" error in google chrome. I'm using on android 4.0.4. But now when I back to full coverage area still getting Aw Snap error. I tried suggested solutions as if facing frequently but still occurring. Even I had reset my phone once and reinstall chrome though. Mostly error showing for specific sites. How do I can get rid of it? Or do I need to contact my carrier?
2 Answers
The Aww Snap crush is a bug in chromium caused by different things:
Low memory
It is also possible that site contains lots of images or JavaScript which might force Chrome to run out of space on the device while loading the site.
I'd suggest you clear up some space on the device and reboot the device.
If it helps, try closing any unused application in background to save resources (CPU, RAM and disk space) and see if Chrome continues to crash.
This vulnerability crashes browser tabs when encountering a link with a malformed URL in the HTML of a page.
The bug crashes the browser without the user taking any direct action other than loading the affected page.
This vulnerability occurs because of Chrome's habit of prefetching page data, such as performing DNS lookups on domain names in links on a page, in a preemptive attempt to speed up future loads. Chrome will try and work out which link on a site you're likely to click on next and then pre-load in the background.
Possible fix is disabling pre-fetching
Go to Settings >> Privacy >> Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly >> Uncheck box.
3. Another possible cause is a corrupt profile.
- You can create a new profile, but if you do, custom data won't be available by default. This includes bookmarks, extensions and settings that you may have changed in Chrome.
References:
answered May 22, 2017 at 12:45
Just go to Recent apps menu where u clean up background processes and lock the Chrome app. It solved the problem in my case. Hope it does in your case too.
