Google Chrome Experiment Crashes Browser Tabs, Impacts Companies Worldwide

A Google Chrome experiment has gone horribly wrong this week and ended up crashing browsers on thousands, if not more, enterprise networks for nearly two days. From a report: The issue first appeared on Wednesday, November 13. It didn’t impact all Chrome users, but only Chrome browsers running on Windows Server “terminal server” setups — a very common setup in enterprise networks According to hundreds of reports, users said that Chrome tabs were going blank, all of a sudden, in what’s called a “White Screen of Death” (WSOD) error. The issue was no joke. System administrators at many companies reported that hundreds and thousands of employees couldn’t use Chrome to access the internet, as the active browser tab kept going blank while working. In tightly controlled enterprise environments, many employees didn’t have the option to change browsers and were left unable to do their jobs. Similarly, system administrators couldn’t just replace Chrome with another browser right away.