It appears I wasn’t the only person who could’t enjoy the release of the Chrome browser. I found several posts of persons with the exact same problem. Google reportedly was blaiming Symantec Endpoint for the crashing error, but several people said they didn’t have Symantec Enpoint even installed.

The fix (on WinXP) if you are in the same predicament, open the Registry Editor, by typing regedit in the “run” window and locating the key;

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ServicesSysPlant

Change the DWORD value to 4. Exit the editor and reboot you’re computer. As always use caution when touching the registery and be sure you have backed it up. Once I got the browserr operating it appeared stable and snappy. My common Firefox shortcuts like Cntrl-T for new tabs worked the same as well as Cntrl-Shift-T to restore a closed tab. I do miss my Firefox add-ins however…Fast Dial, Taboo, FoxMarks and Stumble Upon. In my early tests this the only major downfall.