I will say that I had about 7-8 tabs open in Chrome, 1 in Firefox, and about 6 TextEdit documents open. I’m actually pinning the blame on Chrome. It started giving me the sad folder face when I would use a couple sites. Some sites were fine. However it wouldn’t let me use my gmail, which is why I opened up Firefox, and I then got to my mail fine.

However once I went back to Chrome to check something, I tried minimizing it and the picture at the top was the result. It got about half way there, then just outright froze on me.

While I was staring at the screen in horror, I felt the need to take a picture of this extremely rare occurrence. Then I almost felt lucky to be able to say one day to my children “I remember when Mac’s still crashed.” I then also suddenly felt the urge to spread the news of this rare phenomenon.

I never thought I would see the day. Maybe it’s Chrome’s fault, or maybe there was just too much strain on the memory, I will never know. I am happy to say that Chrome restored all of my windows successfully, and the same with TextEdit.

That, in addition to how fast the Mac restarts, made this experience very far from a nightmare…but I was a little hurt..and disappointed.

For all of those non-mac users, you cannot know my shock, but for me, I’m used to my seamless user experience. Once in 2 years isn’t a bad stat though..let’s hope I have another 2 until the next one!

Written by: Dante Cullari Founder & President Beat-Play, LLC