Chrome is making CPU overheat and causing games to freeze and crash. Solution is Edge

Having this same issue in Chrome on GNU/Linux. Heavily loads the CPU just for a normal game of chess or bughouse, no engine analysis running, nothing.

There's an amazing number of users reporting the same issue here with zero contributions from chess.com, which is not very encouraging!

I have had the same issue, and as others have pointed out, it shouldn't be anything to do with system resources being inadequate... presenting the interface for a game of chess just cannot possibly require massive resource loads!

My observation - fan goes berserk with CPU usage up around 40% (compared to barely topping 5% for any other app or website) and stays that way long after shutting Chrome ... and can crash the PC. Task Manager reports that it's specifically Chrome "crashpad" handler (or such) that is gobbling resources, so I figure something on the chess.com site, possibly a 3rd part ad in a frame and/or ad-blocker, is triggering a crash handler which itself crashes creating an endless resource-gobbling recursion.

I'm using Chrome on Linux XFCE but I see others are having the same trouble in Windows so I won't rush to blame Chrome's poor Linux support!

Chrome in general is not very efficient. Seriously, consider using Edge even for stuff outside chess.com.

You'd think Google would have the resources to make the most popular browser work very well. They seem to have been relying on inertia for a few years.

I cannot imagine that it has anything to do with Chrome, specifically. The browser should just be rendering 2D sprites on a board that move... how is this computationally expensive?

I'm getting freezes with Firefox.

Edit - Bot games are super slow on Edge. I'm guessing my extensions are interfering.