I’m experiencing the same issue. Latest chrome update version 147.0.7727.102. Latest windows 11 update.
Basically every time I enable bitwarden extension on chrome, chrome slows down to a crawl, freezes/hangs basically. It literally worked fine a few days ago.
But I also observes this behavior when enabling the built-in Google Docs Offline extension. Not all extensions cause this though. So, it’s not something unique to bitwarden extension, possibly a bug from chrome itself, chrome canary seems to have the same issue. But as you may know chrome/google support forum is not very helpful, and it doesn’t seem many people is experiencing this. Could be a hardware thing, I use slightly older thinkpad.
Hardly anyone reported this issue on the internet. I actually created this account to make a thread about it. There were 2 recent threads with comments about it on reddit. But not much discussion.
The desktop application still works fine.