New laptop can't reliably run web browsers

Post date: 2021-12-04 19:00:30

New laptop (Razer Blade 14) mostly seems to work fine, but web browsers (Edge, Chrome, and Firefox) are all exhibiting the same problem. Very often (usually on first loading, or when scrolling for a couple of seconds) the currently displayed tab will crash and be replaced with an out of memory error.

In Edge it looks like this:

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This page is having a problem
Try coming back to it later.

You could also:
. Open a new tab
. Refresh this page

Error code: Out of Memory.
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Windows 10. 16GB RAM, Task Manager says about 4.6GB's used. One tab open, no other applications running. Refreshing the page will usually work for a little while before the same error recurs. Happens on all pages I've tried (even simple pages like Metafilter). I'm also finding that extensions are crashing about as often (same issue?), though the problem happens without any extensions installed. Everything else, including games, VR stuff, and other large applications, work without any issues.

Tried:
Updating Windows and all the drivers.
Resetting Windows. Happens on a clean install before adding drivers or anything else.
Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (no issues found).
The suggestions on where someone else encountered a similar problem.

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