About once a day while using chrome on macOS (Ventura) I'll see the mac spinning pinwheel and it won't let me change tabs. I close chrome entirely and can restart tabs. Once I waited 10 minutes and it was still showing the pinwheel and I couldn't change tabs.
I initially thought it might be unique to my laptop, but yesterday it happened on an almost fresh install of sonoma on a work laptop. So I'm leaning toward it being a chrome thing rather than a 'me' thing.
Anyone else?
It seems to occur most often when I am switching from one app to Chrome with Chrome in full screen mode. I do not have the issue if I use Chrome in a window.
When the pinwheel does come up, it usually helps to navigate away and click on an empty desktop, then come back. Interestingly enough when I do that, I occasionally notice a "this program is recording your screen notification" in the status bar.
I actually gave up on Chrome because of this issue, but reinstalled it after noticing some of the other browsers lacking some of Chrome's unique features
Solved for me! Thanks! (my previous solution was to force quit chrome, which stopped everything I was doing in its tracks).
EDIT: just updated to 14.1.2 (23B92). Hopefully it stops happening. Will report back if it happens again.
Some external device (special webcam? mic? bluetooth?) that maybe doesn't play well with the browser access requests?
Maybe you can dig through the crash logs...
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6271277?hl=en
I experience the same spinning wheel that rarely if ever resolves on its own, but I’ve noticed that if I click outside of the Chrome window to change focus to another app, and then immediately click back into a Chrome window, the spinning wheel is immediately resolved.
I thought that was a MsEdge issue. Happy to learn it's a chromium one.