Not really tech minded so please excuse my ignorance on the topic, but don't know who else to ask about this.
About two months ago, I noticed that I was having issues searching some words on google using the chrome browser, but didn't put it together until now.
When I try to google words related to the middle east, my chrome browser freezes and then it asks me to kill the page. I started making a short list of the terms I can't google and they include: palestine, syria, west bank, tel aviv, abbas, gaza, islam, hamas, lebanon, hariri, muslim brotherhood, haifa, suez, mubarak, morsi, to name a few.
And my CPU goes up substantially, up to 100%, according to my activity monitor (not sure if this means anything).
I can google these terms fine on safari or firefox but not on chrome.
Here are people with a similar problem:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/2IoLYem-Bng/discussion
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chrome/ZQIP7010y4M
Not sure if you know how I might be able to investigate this further, but any tips you could give me would be great. Think it might be a virus but it's really strange and as I said before, not really a tech person and don't have many tech friends so this is difficult to figure out.
With my chrome, I have no plug ins or extensions that I am aware of. I'm on a MacBook Pro, about two and a half years old, on Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
I know I could just reinstall chrome and it would be fine--but I want to figure out if this is really something first or just some kinda glitch.
Hope someone can tell me what they think it could be! Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
About two months ago, I noticed that I was having issues searching some words on google using the chrome browser, but didn't put it together until now.
When I try to google words related to the middle east, my chrome browser freezes and then it asks me to kill the page. I started making a short list of the terms I can't google and they include: palestine, syria, west bank, tel aviv, abbas, gaza, islam, hamas, lebanon, hariri, muslim brotherhood, haifa, suez, mubarak, morsi, to name a few.
And my CPU goes up substantially, up to 100%, according to my activity monitor (not sure if this means anything).
I can google these terms fine on safari or firefox but not on chrome.
Here are people with a similar problem:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/2IoLYem-Bng/discussion
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chrome/ZQIP7010y4M
Not sure if you know how I might be able to investigate this further, but any tips you could give me would be great. Think it might be a virus but it's really strange and as I said before, not really a tech person and don't have many tech friends so this is difficult to figure out.
With my chrome, I have no plug ins or extensions that I am aware of. I'm on a MacBook Pro, about two and a half years old, on Snow Leopard (10.6.8).
I know I could just reinstall chrome and it would be fine--but I want to figure out if this is really something first or just some kinda glitch.
Hope someone can tell me what they think it could be! Any tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!