Well, I must say that I'm not impressed with the “out of the box” behavior of Google Chrome when browsing the Web.  More than once, one of the Chrome's several processes (under WinXP Pro) had gone into a state where it is eating up 100% of my CPU's cycles…and doing nothing obvious to the Web page being displayed.

What can it be doing?  I can't tell!  Whatever it is takes 10's of seconds to complete.

What seems to set it off is viewing PDF files (scrolling up/down) and/or Flash videos (e.g., YouTube, and manipulating the “slider”).

I've ended up killing off Chrome and restarting it, although it also has been possible to wait it out.

Has anyone else observed this behavior?

yes… it still new.. need more improvements

Google Chrome needs real time improvement. they have just launched a new browser but it is good for nothing. i think they should just try make some more changes in it so that it works perfectly…

I am also facing the same problem. Google chrome also eats everything in my Pc and hangs whenever i try to access video streaming sites or sites with javascripts.

I agree that Google Chrome needs more regular updating. They should not have never released it in the condition it is. No addon support, not working with Vista correctly, etc. I'm not Googles beta testers. Peopl get paid for that kind of work and so do I.