Today all of a sudden Google Chrome (9.0.597.84-r72991) hung loading a simple web2py page. It couldn't even render the welcome page any more. Even a blank new profile didn't work. It just hung and reported a crashed web page after a while (the sad dialog).
Then I tried chromium - same behaviour, even with a mirror copy of the welcome page as "file:///...". It turned out that modernizr-1.6.min.js caused the crash when trying to detect WebGL support. Bug report for chromium: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=69845 Bug report for modernizr: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/issue/156 It should help to disable WebGL in http://about:flags if this bug bites you. You can also comment out the try...webgl... part in modernizr-1.6.js or just remove modernizr from the layout.html. Its checks for WebGL can be quite expensive anyway and slow down page loading if you don't need it. Funny: Trying to load http://www.modernizr.com/news/ fails in the same way (Google Chrome 9.0.597.84-r72991). Cheers Bernd
