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This reminds me why I switched to Firefox in the first place years ago.  Oi. Isn't it lame when a Google search for what appears to be a commonly-experienced problem does not have a solution which readily presents itself? A search for "whoa google chrome has crashed loop" (or etc.) brings up a variety of results in the Google Product Forums--and kudos to all the good people that took the time to post, and repost, and follow-up, and try to help & collaborate.  Regrettably, I couldn't find something that worked for me. This page says to visit this page , and if that doesn't work... create a new user profile .  Wait, what?  Create a new Windows user profile?  Madness!  Mercifully no, the page is titled "Create a new browser user profile".  Sheesh. While searching to see if Chrome writes a log someplace, one nice person's article ultimately led me to stumble across the solution. Here's what I found that works.  Obvious disclaimer: us...

Outlook 2010 is p r e t t y .  Of course aesthetics alone is rarely reason-enough to upgrade, (unless you use the Lotus Notes client).  Fortunately or unfortunately at work, my team tends to stay on the cutting edge, testing computer configurations before handing them over to our customers, including our developers.  We eat our own dog food, in a sense. One absolutely horrible, annoying, useless, idiotic, empty-headed-fool, middle-management-moron-inspired "feature" which should be ripped out and stuffed violently up said manager's, uh, nose , is this ridiculous  uncommanded activity which occurs just by hovering your mouse over a name . E.g., start a new mail message Populate the To: field with one or more of your contacts Let your mouse and mind wander. Hover over a contacts name and sweet baby jebus isn't Outlook wonderful! An uncommanded action occurs a new mail message appears WTF?!1 Try it.  Hover your mouse over a name in the To: f...