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Chrome has been freezing and crashing on OnePlus phones for months

Chrome on Android has been a bit more crash-happy over the past few months. There were reports of WebView (the Chrome-based engine that powers web content inside apps) having problems last year, and Google has acknowledged Chrome 83 crashes on select Asus devices. OnePlus phone owners have also had to deal with buggy Chrome behavior, as the app has been freezing and crashing on some OnePlus devices for the past several months.
It's not out of the ordinary for Chrome to occasionally become unresponsive — the culprit is usually resource-intensive websites, rather than the browser itself. However, there has been an overwhelming number of reports in the past few months of Chrome and WebView having problems on OnePlus phones. The earliest complaints date back to October, but the frequency of reports has increased in the past two months.
OnePlus 7 Pro freezes on Chrome
My op 7 pro regularly freezes and lags when scrolling on Chrome. It's been like this since the first day I had the phone. Very annoying especially when scrolling and another problem is that whenever I click on a dropdown on a form and choose an option, rather than closing it keeps popping up the dropdown selection.
Oneplus 8 Google Chrome Freezing
Has anyone had issues with Chrome or other apps freezing? Got my OP8 in the past few days and been putting it through its paces. Beautiful phone, great upgrade from my Note 8, just been having this one issue. Browsing the web, the app will suddenly freeze for ~10 seconds at a time every 20 min or so. Notification bar works fine, so I'm guessing it's isolated to Chrome. Happens especially when the page has media content.
In-app browser still hangs all the time since updated to A10 half a year ago
As soon as you open a long webpage and start to read, it's almost guaranteed going to freeze after 30 seconds or so of scrolling. Rotating screen works around it, but it could freeze again even within the same page (and it is annoying since I normally have it locked).
It happens in every apps as soon as they're using webview/in-app browser, be it RedditIsFun, Twitter, or even Gmail.
I tried clear cache/data/whatever for both webview and Chrome, didn't work.
It used to be an Android 10 issue for what I gathered, but I believe it is no longer common with other brands/ROMs. It is, however, still prominent on OnePlus (go official forum and search and you wee see).
Are we going to eventually get a fix of this?
I'm using OP6.
Android Webview hangs up after a minute if using it
So a few apps like Sync for Reddit and some others use the android Webview to open links, but on my OP7Pro it hangs up after a minute or two of using it. I then have to wait for Android to show the "app not responding box" and hit close. Anyone else facing a similar issue?
Device information
Device: OnePlus7Pro
Model: OnePlus GM1917
Android: 10.3.1.GM21AA
Edit: It started happening when I updated to A10, this was fine on A9
Artem Russakovskii, the owner of this fine website, also received a few confirmations in April after asking if anyone was still experiencing WebView crashing on OnePlus phones.
Unfortunately, it's still unclear what exactly the root cause of these crashes is. We reached out to Google and OnePlus for comment, but neither company has provided answers yet — OnePlus is still looking into the issue, and Google never responded to our inquiry. The only report filed in the Chromium bug tracker related to OnePlus crashes appears to be limited to Trusted Web Activities. We have also discovered a handful of reports about similar crashing/freezing issues on other devices, but they don't appear to be anywhere as frequent as complaints from OnePlus owners

    Hopefully, OnePlus or Google will eventually provide an answer or a fix for these issues. Even for folks using a different web browser, issues with WebViews can still cause countless third-party applications to experience problems.
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