Google chrome freezes when printing a page using window print method

Question

I have latest google chrome version -32.0.1700.107 m installed on windows 8 machine.

I am doing this:

popup = window.open();
popup.print();

This opens a new popup and a print window appears. Now, when I go back to the page from where I triggered this, it freezes and I cannot do anything there.

Here is the small fiddle for your reference. FIDDLE

Click the button and come back to the fiddle page (do not close the print page) and try typing anything in the fiddle, it will be hanged and as soon as you will close the print page, the fiddle window will get normal.

This is in Google chrome ONLY, other browsers are working smoothly. Please help.

I tried:

1. Opening the popup in new window using window.open("","","width=800,height=600").
2. Putting popup.close().
3. opening it on some different OS (windows 7, XP)

But got no success

Please some kind soul help me with this issue or some work around.

Answer 1

This is an issue in Google Chrome and will be fixed in Chrome 36 according to this issue.