If you are (like I do) experiencing issues with Google Chrome, in particular when it comes to applications such as Google Maps, try using the --disable-accelerated-compositing option.

For me, the issues started with version 6.0 and resulted in various pages hanging at random, in particular graphics-heavy sites such as maps. For one of my own sites, markers started disappearing on maps at certain zoom levels. Only when it also occurred on the main Google Maps I stopped looking for bugs in my own site and started focusing on the browser …