Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers

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If you use Chrome along with Google's Sync (http://www.google.com/sync/index.html), you may have noticed something strange Monday: normally stable Chrome crashing. An article at Wired (excerpt below) explains why:"Late Monday, Google engineer Tim Steele confirmed what developers had been suspecting. The crashes were affecting Chrome users who were using another Google web service known as Sync (http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/12/google-bug/), and that Sync and other Google services — presumably Gmail too — were clobbered Monday when Google misconfigured its load-balancing servers. ... Steele wrote in a developer discussion forum, a problem with Google's Sync servers kicked off an error on the browser, which made Chrome abruptly shut down on the desktop. 'It's due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=165171), and sync servers responding to that by telling all clients to throttle all data types,' Steele said. That 'throttling' messed up things in the browser, causing it to crash."

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/11/1553202/google-sync-clobbers-chrome-browsers