Chrome kept crashing on YouTube, X, and Netflix. Uninstalling Avast fixed it.
Chrome kept crashing on YouTube, X, and Netflix. Uninstalling Avast fixed it.
For the past few days, Chrome kept crashing whenever I used video-heavy websites like YouTube, X/Twitter, and Netflix.
The errors I kept seeing were:
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN
At first, I thought it was a Chrome issue, so I tried the usual fixes:
- Cleared cookies and site data
- Reset Chrome data
- Reinstalled Chrome
- Updated my GPU driver
- Turned off hardware acceleration
- Tested Incognito mode
- Tested Guest profile
None of them fully fixed it.
I also tried disabling Avast Web Shield / Web protection and real-time protection, so I assumed Avast was not the problem. But then I noticed that renaming chrome.exe stopped the crashes, which made me suspect that something was hooking into Chrome specifically.
I checked the loaded modules with Process Explorer and found several Avast DLLs loaded into the Chrome process, including hook/script filtering related ones.
After completely uninstalling Avast, the issue disappeared.
So if Chrome keeps crashing on video platforms with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION or STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN, and normal Chrome fixes do not work, try fully uninstalling your antivirus instead of only disabling Web Shield.
Disabling Avast features was not enough in my case. Full uninstall fixed it.