


Radar bug number 11762608 has been filed with Apple regarding the kernel panics, since it should not be possible for an application to trigger such behavior. The resource leak is causing a kernel panic on Mac hardware containing the Intel HD 4000 graphics chip (e.g. Work is proceeding to find and fix the root cause of the leak. We have identified a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser related to the drawing of plugins on Mac OS X.
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Tapping the feature with that leak results in a kernel panic, and that’s when the MacBook Airs crash. Google issued a statement to Gizmodo saying that the problem affects Mac with Intel’s HD 4000 graphics chip running OS X, and it said it has pushed an update to users disabling the features causing the problem while it works out a long-term solution.Īccording to Google’s statement, the issue is a memory leak within OS X itself. Google acknowledged late on Thursday that its Chrome browser was causing crashes on some MacBook Air models.
