Gmail broken on Chrome in Standard mode....

I have a Windows 7 32 bit machine that I run the Google browser Chrome on. I always have 20+ tabs open and the first one is always Gmail. For several months now, my machine would be unresponsive on first use of the day (I never power down) and occasionally Chrome would tell me that it was the Gmail tab on the browser that was causing the problem (it would display the "Oh Snap..." box). I tried everything computer-wise to sort the problem out. I had Task Manager running to observer processor load and memory. Nothing worked. Then I stumbled on the fix: Run Gmail in HTML mode! My machine has been as good as gold since that change. I don't like the HTML mode nearly as much, but no more slow downs or browser crashes!