I have chrome 37 and problem just started today.
When I open Chrome I cannot view any pages. It just hangs and get eventually Page Unresponsive Window with option to kill page or to wait.
Even pages like chrome://settings
have the same problem!
I also tried disabling extensions but that doesn't help!
Internet is working fine with other Browsers.
I downloaded standalone installer from Google, reinstalled (System wide version), chrome starts automatically and everything working again. But when I close chrome and restart - problem starts again! Reinstall - it works, close and restart - problem comes back.
Edit: After rebooting computer, as expected, things started working again. But this still doesn't explain what was causing the problem?