I have been using Chrome for sometime and I am quite liking this browser (not as compared to Firefox). I frequently use Google Reader to view blogs and news stuffs. I have also subscribed to Yahoo! Business News Feed. But when I browse items from that feed particular window of Chrome crashes with the error message Yahoo! Application State Plug-in has crashed. I was quite amazed. I was curious to find out what was going wrong. After digging through the source code, I was able to find the cause.

Whenever I was logged into Yahoo!, the plug-in get activated. The purpose of this plugin is to tell Yahoo! pages whether you have Yahoo! Messenger installed, which versions you have, and wether you are currently logged in. Only yahoo.com is supposed to have access to this information, to ensure this the plugin tests document.domain property of the page that loaded it. (It can be manipulated using Opera and Firefox. See here)

But when I destroyed my Yahoo! session by logging out, the problem just gone.

The problem may be that whenever one is logged in, the plugin gets activated and Yahoo! have not created condition in their code for Chrome. But Chrome and Safari uses the same open source rendering engine called WebKit so it should not have occured. Since I have no knowledge of that plugin’s source code so, I am not in the state of confirming. Lets hope Yahoo! solved this issue quickly.

Update:

I guess this issue has been solved. I am not experiencing browser crash when opening Yahoo! News in Chrome.